Brian Crescimanno wrote:
> On 6/20/07, Zoe M. Gillenwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> (You really should try to get your client to upgrade to IE 6 at least.
>> Try telling them that their browser is several years old and thus
>> vulnerable to lots of virus and spyware attacks. That usually works.)
> 
> Good technique; and where I go here may be out of bounds--but I think
> it warrants discussion: is there a browser version you can point to
> and say "look, I'm sorry, we just can't support that."  In my opinion,
> IE 5.5 has not been "standard issue" since 2000 or early 2001 at the
> very latest; that is, it is at the very least 6-7 years old.
> 
> I would hope, at this point, we can all agree that attempting to
> support Netscape 4.x (released 1998) or IE 4.x, and probably 5.x is
> just out of the question.  But when is it reasonable for us to point
> to IE5.5, its broken box model, and its complete lack of support from
> Microsoft and say "Nope, not doing it."  Quite frankly, I'm already in
> that boat personally, but I do see a lot of people still considering
> it at this point and I really do wonder why.

Start charging extra for support on Old Browser vX.XX? ;-)

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David
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