Please ...
I just checked Webtrends for browser types hitting our site and 98% of all
browsers are NN 4+ and IE 4+ ... with the over 60% being IE 5. With a sample
of over 5 million hits.
You really are going to tell the website owner to ante up another X thousands
of dollars to develop downward browser capability? Not to mention the cost of
maintaining the various website variants.
Let me see ... you could lose one or two sales to the 2% of browser that
don't support scripting/have scripting enabled ... or you spend 50K and
capture them.
Cost verus payoff?
Ohhh, and let me guess ... you also develop
non-cookie-based/non-session-based site variants also! Cha Ching!
And don't even think about all the people who can't read English? Let me see
.... 2% of the people speak Yiddish ... so let's spend 50K to present our site
in Yiddish?
You got to be kidding!
Bill Reichard
Willow Gold
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.willowgold.com
In a message dated 1/18/01 9:42:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> There's no point putting 'basic' functionality on a web site that's supposed
> to be for all of your users if it won't work on some of their browsers. How
> you can expect users to go back to your website if half of it doesn't work
> because they haven't got the right settings or the latest browser? This
> seems to be a very narrow minded attitude to have and will cost you
> potential customers and clients.
>
> Granted, a lot of the time you can have things that won't work on some
> browsers, but only if there's an alternative for people who may not have
> right settings and it doesn't loose any functionality or the message that
> you're trying to convey to the user.
>
> Kath
>
>
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