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  • From: B <beeline AT mindspring.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Microsoft (blah blah) + SHOES
  • Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:23:25 -0400


Is the UK swimming against the tide?

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6996393.html?tag=dd.ne.dtx.nl-sty.0

Josep Lluís Guallar Esteve wrote:
>
> A Dimecres 29 Agost 2001 01:05 pm, vàreu escriure:
> > I also don't think that NS 4.x is so far from "au currant" that web sites
> > should be completely incompatible with it. Which was my orginal point:
> > I can't believe the LaTimes site (major site with a wide-ranging audience
> > whose purpose is *not* to demo the most up-to-date technology) crashes my
> > browser with NS 4.x. I'd feel differently if it were a site dedicated to
> > new technology, but the LaTimes should be at least a little bit
> > backwards-compatible, IMHO.
>
> > YMMV, of course, but as a former Web Site manager, I always made sure my
> > sites were at least two major versions backward compatible.
>
> Maybe you can get a consulting job with the UK Government: They have rool
> out
> a site, to inform their citizens about important stuff... that only works
> with IExplorer 5.5!!!
>
> Yes, no Mac, no Linux, no Windows w/o IE 5.5 can access the website.
>
> Isn't that beautiful? At least, my own website is accessible with text-based
> browsers or IExplorer or Mozilla or Netscape or ... But maybe I am misguided
> and what I should do is "Konqueror 2.2 only" websites.
>
> Salut,
> Josep
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