Hi Mike,

I'm curious as to how the decision regarding browser support came about. What 
did the client perceive the 'benefits' of excluding a particular user-base to 
be? Why not cater to IE5 Mac if the work had already been done?

>no, that was an informed client choice! We had orginally done the templates to 
>look pretty much the same in IE5 (Win and Mac), but during the integration 
>phase they decided to not send styles to those browsers.
>
>I think their statistics showed very few visits from those browsers. I guess 
>this may be one of the first examples of a major (for NZ) public site making 
>the choice not to send styles to those browsers.
>
>Yah for clients prepared to make that decision :)


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