> -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Swabey - Lafinboy Productions > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 2 September 2005 3:59 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [WSG] Text Size Statistics > > Thanks Andreas and Peter, your clarifications said what I meant ;) > > At the risk of starting a flame war, there has to come a time > when full > acceptance of a standard (in whatever business/industry/walk > of life) is > made, and that can only happen at the expense and exclusion > of non-compliant > systems/products/methods. Backwards compatibility can only > extend so far, > and relaxation of a standard dilutes the purpose and impact > of the standard. > Why have a standard if there is no effect in not applying or > adhering to it? >
Ah, completely agree with you! But does it look professional if we put up a page somewhere saying: you can't see our page because your browsers are old? That's like going back to the habit of writing "this website is made for 800x600" at the bottom of the page. Both looks like a cheap excuse. I would say: forget about old browsers like Netscape 4.7, but don't try to write any excuses about it. The client's don't care about our excuses anyway: either they can see the site or they can't. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
