> 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?
Through graceful degradation, yes. I would choose to send plain, unstyled content to v4 browsers and in fact these days v5 browsers too. IE5.5 is probably the exception there, I suppose - it's hanging on like a weed. If questioned by the client, I would explain that it would substantially increase the build cost for very little return. If they insist, well and good - and they can pay to have entire extra versions of the design created, since that what it generally amounts to. This is assuming no server logs showing unusual patterns, etc. - Ben -- --- <http://www.200ok.com.au/> --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
