[plug] OT: Sites bow to Microsoft's browser king

[Simon Scott]

On Monday 22 July 2002 9:11 am, Colin Muller wrote:

> Second, insist on a cross-browser compatibility clause in any future
> contracts with your Web designer. Make a list: on Mac, Windows and
> Linux: Opera 5.x and 6.x, NS 4.x, 6.x and 7.x prerelease, Mozilla 1.0;
> plus on Linux: Konqueror; plus on Windows and Mac: IE 4.x, 5.x, 6.x.
> And then add in that all links must be accessible (if in a different
> way from the map) in lynx. It is possible (although sometimes
> difficult) to achieve functional cross-compatibility for these
> browsers without doing any browser sniffing, and someone advertising
> themselves as a "Web" something, as opposed to "IE" something, should
> be able to do so.


If its an internal web ap, I currently aim at NS 6+ and IE 5.5+. But with 
internal stuff you can usually control the browser.

With External stuff, the effects you want may not be achievable in certain 
browsers. This means designing two sites really, the 'can-do' site and the 
'I-really-need-to-upgrade' site.

JUst think, one day when everyone uses W3C standard browsers, we'll still 
have to do this for f***ing IE. :)