[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But in all seriousness, if you were setting up a website for a client
who has never been on the web before (no server logs to analyse) and
is marketing their gates/fencing business, would you try and support
4.0 browsers? Has the time come to just have a disclaimer on the
site stating support for 5.0 browsers or above?
Serious support today should be more or less in line with...
<http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/articles/gbs/gbs_browser-chart.html>
...or maybe slightly broader...
<http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_1_02_02.html>
...as long as the experience in the latest browsers don't suffer. That
excludes version 4 browsers and cuts hard into version 5 browsers.
I'll inform a client about such decisions, and try to aim for the future
rather than risk getting stuck in the past.
I wouldn't state actual browser-support on a site, as visitors are quite
able to see/experience the result in their own browsers. I'm not able to
test every detail in all the latest browsers, so I might miss a bug (or
something) in one of them.
I might respond to unhappy visitors' reports by looking into whatever
problems they might have regarding support for their preferred
browser(s) once a site is up - and may even make slight adjustments.
This might be seen as "slightly more helpful" than a recent thread shows
;-)
However, I won't try to bring the support for an old browser-version
very high. Commercial sites should work at a minimum level in just about
any browser, but that's it.
I often add links to <http://browsehappy.com/> since all IE versions up
to and including IE7 are/will be less capable than the others, and leave
the rest up to the visitor without further disclaimers of any sort -
apart from those I include on my own site :-)
Georg
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