Well, I'm the first to admit that I'm staking out the extreme position here. (Somebody has to do it.)
I agree with you completely. I've already started the process of gracefully degrading, as much as I can get away with, in my work. I just don't sweat it anymore if IE6 doesn't render pixel-perfect as long as the page still communicates and is functional. I wouldn't have considered this 6 months ago. It's a matter of how much graceful degradation is acceptable. And I don't know the answer. And, are we at the point (which happened on a lot of sites 6 years ago) where we start to put up conditional content that says, "Yo dude, your browsers out of date, you'll have a better experience here if you upgrade!"? - Eli On Aug 15, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Colin Clark wrote: > I certainly sympathize with your opinion, though I do think that > interoperability is a huge goal of any open source community. > > As of July 2008, IE6 still represents 26% of the market. That's more > than Firefox! It might not be prudent to alienate a quarter of the > market at this stage in the game. > > In many cases, we may choose to put more pressure on a particular > subset of modern browsers, allowing some IE6-related bugs to remain > if they don't render our code unusable. Eventually, we'll want to > let it go completely. > > So, here's an idea for a more positive way to influence browser > support: graceful degradation. It will let us more aggressively > deprecate older, annoying browsers like IE6 without completely > excluding their users. Uploader is a prime example of the potential > for this approach. Let's put some energy there, instead of sweating > the pain of supporting sucky Microsoft technology. > > If you want a fairly cynical but very interesting picture of the > current state of browser support, check out Alex Russell's recent > blog posting on the subject: > > http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/2008/08/a-little-perspective/ > > My two cents, > > Colin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eli Cochran user interaction developer ETS, UC Berkeley _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
