RE: [WSG] Hi there!

[Drake, Ted C.]

There are people using netscape 4. They tend to be stuck in government areas that do not allow people to update their computers or those using old programs that require this browser. It's easy to satisfy their need for content and everyone else's desire for pretty pages. Simply link to a basic css document that defines colors, sizes, etc.  Then import your advanced style sheets. NN4 does not recognize the import function.   Ted     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erica Jean Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 11:19 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Hi there!   Hi there guys, I'm new :) My name is Erica and I'm a 21 year old graphic design student (only 2 more years to go! Yay!)   I have a question though, and it's something that I've really been trying to put a lot of thought into.   When building sites using the web standards, the stone-age browsers (Netscape and IE 4 are the two that I'm talking about specifically), are there really enough people out there with browsers that old that we should hack our CSS/etc to make things look okay to them?   How exactly would you do that, anyway? If you're not using any design markup in your actual html document, and those browsers can't read CSS - do you make another site specifically for them? Do you create a page that asks for them to upgrade their browser?   I can justify going back to IE 5.5, and even IE 5.0 to an extent... but is it really worth our time to go all the way back to the 4.0 browsers?   Thanks for your opinions!   -Erica Jean