On 20/05/2004, at 2:56 PM, Universal Head wrote:
Curious how others would approach this?
I've just finished a simple site that is perfect in WIN - NN 7, IE 5.01, IE 5.5, IE 6 MAC - Safari 1.2.1, Mozilla 1.4, IE 5.2
And a friend looks it in on Mac IE 5 and finds a big problem.
IE 5 and 5.1 are pretty buggy compared to 5.2+.
My question is, do you draw the line or not? Do I spend more time time trying to track down this one dumb version number browser's problem, or do I just say it's not worth it?
If the site is currently unusable with older version of IE 5 Mac, then you have to do SOMETHING.
My advice would be to hide the stylesheet completely from IE < 5.2 via server-side scripting if at all possible, or perhaps hide it from all IE browsers via a MacIE hiding hack if server-side isn't feasible.
The ROI (return on investment) is virtually nil for you to track down and attempt to solve these bugs in a browser that is very outdated, discontinued, and a very small % of users (my guess is 0.1–0.5% -- unless you're targeting a Mac-oriented audience with older OS 9 machines!).
Do what you can, but don't loose sleep over it -- just make sure the content is accessible primarily.
--- Justin French http://indent.com.au
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