Certainly, if youre working on a company intranet, you should make him use ie 5.5+ in an hta communicating directly to word and excel with all the wysywig text processors. Nuff said on that!
Though as a general fairly safe rule, if it looks ok in crapigator 4.7 then its likely to look ok most other places(javascript aside). And you can have both 4.7 and 6 or 7 running on the same computer fine. But wait. . . Now youre saying you don't mind testing on 4.7 but before you said you were pulling your hair out? And as far as moving to nn6: sure it was more compatible, but sometimes the user experience was a step back. All the dhtml at the time was testing for layers to see if it was nn and nn6 passed the test but nothing worked after that. I catch myself ranting! I wont even start on my experiences trying to get early macs to work. Though I certainly agree that people should upgrade!! DRE -----Original Message----- From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 9:46 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Dropping Netscape 4 The majority of our work is for company intranets. We can tell the client what they have to use. As for the public side, we do our best to make sure things will work in 4.x browsers. But we can't test anything below IE 6 because none of us are going to keep an old browser and it is difficult to install IE 4 and 5 on my XP Pro computer. I don't mind testing in Netscape 4.7, but at this point, with Netscape 6 being out for over a year now people should upgrade. > -----Original Message----- > From: Andre Turrettini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:23 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Dropping Netscape 4 > > Hmm. Maybe you can clarify the versions when you said some sites were near > equal. > > But just think of the market. If youre site is the only one they can see > clearly, then you've eliminated the competition. And if that's 5% of > 10000 users hitting your site monthly. Then you've got 500 near > exclusive users. > > > Sure its free but think of the people there who are terrified of trying to > update anything on their computer for fear of having to spend their hard > earned money paying a delinquent high school dropout to fix it. For the > computer illiterate there IS a cost to upgrading even free software. > > DRE ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
