I agree. But are the mac.com sites realy incompatible with IE? I can
access all my mac.com pages from my daughter's PC, although her
version of IE is probably quite recent. In any case, I'm kind of stuck
with that server space for now. However, my most important work
portfolio is on a different server, the name of which I've forgotten.
Paul
On Jun 10, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
A few points regarding web sites and browsers:
1 - The oddball browsers matter because the web was always intended to
be a platform-and-OS-neutral medium. Anything that encourages this, as
the "oddball" browsers do, is good (and some of the "oddball" browsers
have features/capabilities that some users may prefer).
2 - As others have pointed out, if your web site is in any way related
to making money it *has* to be Internet Explorer compatible. No big
surprise there, but here *is* a surprise: If it's used for business
your web site must be compatible with Internet Explorer all the way
back to version SIX! Among enterprise networks, IE6 accounts for SIXTY
PERCENT of web browser share (and 78% of IE). And that's as of May,
2009! (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10231713-2.html)
Disgraceful, IMHO, but it's reality.
3 - Don't rely on "if there were something wrong with my web site
people would have told me". I can attest from experience that this
often isn't true. I've had pages that went for months with major
errors that no one told me about. The fact that hardly anyone using
"browser xyz" visits your site may be because your site doesn't work
with that browser, not because it doesn't need to. Check your pages
ruthlessly yourself. Use browsercam (www.browsercam.com) or MultipleIE
(http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE) to check browser compatibility. AT
THE VERY LEAST validate your code through the World Wide Web
Consortium's free validation service (http://validator.w3.org/) -
valid code is no guarantee of compatibility, but it is the proper
starting point.
Of course none of this matters if yours is strictly a hobby site. But
if you have any intentions of making money from your web page it's
very important. You may only lose one customer over a compatibility
issue, but you have no control over who that customer is: A $5.00
one-time buyer or your biggest customer ever.
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