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| Thread ID: 26892 | 2002-11-07 19:43:00 | IE vs Netscape, Opera, and the rest... | Mike (15) | Press F1 |
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| 96912 | 2002-11-08 09:13:00 | But we're not talking about a number of people, Jim, we're talking about percentages. If 5% of my customers (for example) can't view my site properly (we're not talking about not at all) then woopdedoo for them, a whole 95% can view it no problem, and hey, you can never make every customer happy anyway. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 96913 | 2002-11-08 09:42:00 | I like to have any sites I do compatible all round. But it really depends on what the site is about. If it's an HTML tutorial, i think it would be right if your site is correct. Or a page for linux geeks, don't make it all IE required. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 96914 | 2002-11-08 09:48:00 | its a strategic decision to avoid those 5M people. by conc on the 95% market - conc ur limited resources, target market. in actual u would prob need to invest more than 1X to get 1X benefit from that 5%. Rayonline |
rayonline (2134) | ||
| 96915 | 2002-11-08 09:49:00 | Sure, yes. But if you follow the standards and nothing but the standards, then you have no need to worry. A friend of mine has the job of cleaning up code of lazy web designers so that everyone can access a site. If all web designers were to follow the standards (And I'm not saying that some don't) then we shouldn't have so much of a problem. If IE followed actual standards, that would help a LOT. (The biggest problem I have with it is not displaying the transparency of .png images when MS promised they would fix this for IE4(!) - All the other browser (Not IE based) display transparent .png images fine, but why not IE?) |
segfault (655) | ||
| 96916 | 2002-11-08 09:51:00 | >>> Sure, yes . But if you follow the standards and nothing but the >>> standards, then you have no need to worry . A friend of mine has >>> the job of cleaning up code of lazy web designers so that everyone >>> can access a site . In the past I've made sites that get 100% through validator checks, yet they will not display correctly under netscape . It's not all about following standards, it's that the other browsers that hardly anyone uses don't display them properly . Mike . |
Mike (15) | ||
| 96917 | 2002-11-08 09:57:00 | Well if hardly anyone uses them, then its not a problem then is it? They will be a small part of that 5%. | segfault (655) | ||
| 96918 | 2002-11-08 10:00:00 | >>> They will be a small part of that 5% No, they make up the entire 5%. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 96919 | 2002-11-08 10:06:00 | Sorry, I didn't realise that any browser apart from IE (Which you stated had 94 . 9% market share) is not standards complient . I'll end here before this erupts into an ugly argument . :) |
segfault (655) | ||
| 96920 | 2002-11-08 10:09:00 | I think you misunderstood my post :) Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 96921 | 2002-11-08 10:49:00 | If it makes any difference, I recently created a website. It was a makover from a business site that the owner decided to do using MS Publisher. I know this cos it's in the meta content (typical MS). Interesting to note that Publisher had, on most pages, rendered half the text as a GIF! Didn't make things any more fun for me. Anyway, I completely rebuilt it from the ground up, and coded it to HTML 4 specs. It uses CSS (level one compliant) and works on all tested browsers. (see Guinea Pig thread). The only problem is Opera not displaying the menu properly, and it's not from the code - it's a bug. BTW one thing Opera has that I really like - Mouse gestures! SiK |
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