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Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only
An anonymous reader says "According to this story on news.com, it is becoming harder for users of Microsoft-free systems and browsers to view the web. This seems to be a new call to arms from the standards groups, and it is something we should be thinking about. Without help from web designers, using browsers like Mozilla and Opera will effectively cut off our ability to view web sites 'correctly.'" My pet peeve is when sites hype and announce new-and-improved sites, and then they come out and they are simply a gigantic
flash application.
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Best. Post. Ever.
You are not even capable of aligning your bold tags properly...
Don't think of it as having to change your design for 5% of the people. Think of it a designing to gain 5% more customers.
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Now tell this to jamie to fix the page-widening-bugs that plague slashdot. And change 5% to the real number of IE users (I'd really like to see real stats on who uses what browser to view
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
This page on news.com wouldn't validate on w3c's validator (it doesn't even have a DOCTYPE declaration). Oh, the irony.
I'm no corporation, but you've just given me 34 million good reasons to reject any non-IE browser from viewing my personal webpage.
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
At a world-famous corporation (that shall remain nameless here), the chief technology officer mandated IE as the official company browser. Compatibility with all other browsers was to be ignored for cost reasons, for all intranet sites.
The CTO announced the mandate on an intranet web page.
The page, when rendered in IE, crashed.
Of course it displayed perfectly in Netscape.
As long as a large enough percentage of users are using IE, complaining won't help much. You can help educate them with a variation of the following stuck in your <head></head> section:
// -->
<script language="JavaScript">
<!-- Hide the script from old browsers that don't recognize scripts
var browser_name = navigator.appName;
var browser_version = parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
if (browser_name == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") {
document.write("<font face=\"Futura, Kudos, Helvetica, Arial\">");
document.write("<center>\n");
document.write("My condolences! ");
document.write("You appear to be running Internet Explorer.<br>\n");
document.write("I highly recommend checking out ");
document.write("<a href=\"http://www.opera.com\">Opera</a>\n");
document.write("as an alternative...\n");
document.write("</center>\n");
document.write("</font>\n");
document.write("<p>\n");
}
</script>
Speaking of standards and supporting multiple browsers... I do some web development on the side. One of the companies I work for doesn't care if we screw over Netscape 4.x users. This makes development real easy (using XHTML, HTML 4.0, CSS, etc). The other companies I work for want me to still support Netscape 4.x. I HATE SUPPORTING NETSCAPE 4.x. Are there any opinions on how long old browsers should be supported? Is it safe to say that anyone using any half-way decent OS can get some flavor of Mozilla or Netscape 6.x? The only OS that I know is screwed is Solaris 2.5 or less. Anything else?
Then they should use CSS for popup navigation on the left sidebar...
oh wait, IE dosen't support CSS well enough to do that, nevermind..
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