Re: Browser compatibility (Was: Re: Search Engine bots)

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2002

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 44824
interpreted = N
texte = If a client is willing for us to pay to test and re-code pages to be NS4friendly - no problem, their site will be the friendliest we have ..Whenever it is mentioned with a client, they don't want to pay the extra $$and normally aren't that worried that we *might* exclude some visitors.As designers/developers we have to draw the line somewhere otherwise whathappens in 2 years time .. we have to code IE3-7, NS 4-8 .. Its a waste oftime. NS6 was released 2 1/2 years ago. Like I said in an earlier email - ifsomething affects my back pocket .. As in time/$$ I take a close look at it.That being said I test with a Mozilla based browser so tend to be morestandards based than IE based developers.Alain> > > Dan Strong wrote:>> >> Alain,>> >> At last somebody else admits it...I've been doing the same thing for about a>> year and a half now.>> I used to love netscape too, but it got to be a pain for, as you said, less>> than 1%> > > Less than 1% ?> > Obviously, people will stop visiting your site if it doesn't support> their browser.> > I've always kept a anybrowser-friendly site, and here is my stats:> > IE: 63.8 %> Netscape: 13.8 %> Others: 22.4 %> > Frank Nordberg> http://www.musicaviva.com> > -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

If a client is willing for us to pay to test and re-code pages to be NS4friendly - no problem, their site will be the friendliest we have ..Whenever it is mentioned with a client, they don't want to pay the extra $$and normally aren't that worried that we *might* exclude some visitors.As designers/developers we have to draw the line somewhere otherwise whathappens in 2 years time .. we have to code IE3-7, NS 4-8 .. Its a waste oftime. NS6 was released 2 1/2 years ago. Like I said in an earlier email - ifsomething affects my back pocket .. As in time/$$ I take a close look at it.That being said I test with a Mozilla based browser so tend to be morestandards based than IE based developers.Alain> > > Dan Strong wrote:>> >> Alain,>> >> At last somebody else admits it...I've been doing the same thing for about a>> year and a half now.>> I used to love netscape too, but it got to be a pain for, as you said, less>> than 1%> > > Less than 1% ?> > Obviously, people will stop visiting your site if it doesn't support> their browser.> > I've always kept a anybrowser-friendly site, and here is my stats:> > IE: 63.8 %> Netscape: 13.8 %> Others: 22.4 %> > Frank Nordberg> http://www.musicaviva.com> > -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Alain Russell

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