> No one has really mentioned this to the groups yet, I just wanted >everyone to be aware of this. This will affect everyone if it goes through. >This is not based on crappy Netscape that doesn't even display images >correct, it's based on the much more stable Mozilla client. This has come >up >in discussion a lot of the past year or so on if people should bother >making >their websites cross browser compatible, well if this goes through 35 >million internet users could suddenly find your website inaccessible. > >http://slashdot.org/articles/02/03/15/0914233.shtml?tid=154 >
While not discounting the need to develop for it, I would also submit that very few users will be jumping to upgrade to 8.0. As that article and others state, *most* AOL users are still using older browsers, namely 4.0 and 5.0. And seeing as most of those users are on dial-up connections and the upgrade file size is enormous, I don't think the existing 35 million users will be yelling at us any time soon. Also, AOL's membership growth has slowed considerably over the past year and is still slowing, so the amount of new AOL users that this will effect will also be small. Remember, 8.0 isn't even slated to be released until the fall at the earliest, so membership growth could be even slower with the hard pushes by other vendors (namely, MSN). Again, just my opinion. We should always try and develop for the broadest audience we can, but I'm not nervous about the switch either. Regards, Dave. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ______________________________________________________________________ Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusiona FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
