Old Mac Users are stuck I tried to a get a friends mac online and using Yahoo Mail (around the time a ymail dropped support of that browser) it had ie5 and nothing would work at all, no other options it was a second hand (supposedly cost effective machine) phazed into obselence. I frequently see IE6 on win xp in my logs, I have been in net cafes that refuse to update ie to 7 on xp (they did not express why). I am yearning for the day when IE6 can be removed from the equation, but I find following a few simple guidelines much of the trauma can be alleviated (I have just tested a basic liquid grid in ie6 and all is seeming well).
I say to clients that I support browsers currently supported by respect vendors + IE6 on xp / win2k (but when more advanced features are aimed for these may work or not on such horrid browsers - and if so to a lesser degree) ~ Its been a while since I have seen win ie 5.x in a log of any of my sites The web is rapidly evolving, which make treeware pretty bad at keeping up. when at college 10+ years ago my lecturer advised to avoid books - since anything printed will need revision by the time its printed (it was seen as an extreme view then ~ still like books myself but I understood his gist) Going too far back prevents much progress ~ clients usually appreciate that Verify everything you read by seeing what others have to say in 'blogsphere'. There is discussion about the jQuery.com site not displaying correctly in IE7 currently the issue has not been identified as yet but the cause is thought to be a plugin/addon for the browsers. (thats something to be careful of when testing ~ if a client complains about display issues check what extensions to the browser are being used) @Sigurd - I am suprised to hear that Silverstripe administration supports IE6. I have been meaning to checkout Silverstripe having heard great things about it and what I have seen is very impressive indeed - S 2009/3/20 MichaelMD <md...@spraci.com> > On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 21:10 +1300, Sigurd Magnusson wrote: > > Most websites we build at SilverStripe have IE 6.0 as a minimum, and > > even then, we're unpatiently anticipating the time when we can drop IE > > 6. > > I still see quite a few people using IE5 Mac (probably OS9 users stuck > with that) in the server logs here and LOTS of IE6 ... so I think it > will be a while somehow... > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
