On Wednesday, Jul 21, 2004, at 18:21 Australia/Sydney, Neerav wrote:
http://photomatt.net/2004/07/16/mac-ie/
Current stats from Apple indicate that around 50% of Mac users worldwide have made the move to OSX. The other half - still on OS9.x - are very likely to be using IE5. Even some OSX users still do - I have one client on OSX whose browser is IE5; when I suggested she use Safari her reaction was, "Safari? What's that?" She had also not even heard of Opera, or Firefox.
Remember that few people are as 'browser-aware' as we developers. Most people just want to get on with their lives and businesses. The technology they use to do so should be, ideally for them, transparent. So for now, yes, I test and hack where necessary for IE5. To not do so is to effectively replace the question with 'Is Mac support worth it?'
IE5.x/Win probably returns similar stats to IE/Mac in most site logs. Do we ignore it as a target browser, too?
Nick ___________________________ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/
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