On 6/03/2008, at 7:03 AM, Rick Faircloth wrote: As far as IE goes, I test for IE6 and IE7, nothing lower. My data shows no visitors ever coming to my sites with anything less than IE6. And if they do, well, it's just time for an upgrade. I'm not jumping through that many hoops to accommodate so few IE 5 users.
And I make liberal use of conditional comments for IE. In the years to come, as standards and browser capabilities change, conditional stylesheets are much easier to change than hacks, which are no future-proof, either. Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:css-d- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mark Story > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:36 PM > To: 'CSS' > Subject: [css-d] Oldest Browser Currently Testing for > > It seems that my perception of in the wild browsers was a bit off. > As I > consider IE 5 for mac to be deceased, however it seems to be alive and > kicking for some. So I just wanted to get an idea of what the oldest > browser you are currently testing for is? And how are you targetting > them? Hacks, conditional comments, other techniques? > > -Mark > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ I have recently updated our policies regarding this, after much examining of logs of sites we've developed. For IE it is now 6 upward as well, with a check to ensure it renders ok in 5.5, and that it is readable, if not reference rendering. In fact, the only mention of IE below 6 was in a discussion forum, for which the lone user of Mac IE5.2 on OS 9 could change the theme to another which rendered fine, so no issue there. Keep in mind this is more representative of the type of sites we do, than the internet as a whole, and the ultimate answer is for the developer to examine logs, and their own ideas of what they're comfortable with. We still use conditional comments for IE6 for functionality as far as transparent PNGs and a few other small aspects go, but the 'ie' stylesheet has become much shorter than it used to be. Karl mothership - http://mothership.co.nz ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
