Author: Ted Roche
Posted: 2010-04-06 at 12:04:11
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:50 PM, James E Harvey <jharvey@hanoverpa.com> wrote:
> Has anyone seen a standard recommendation on how many browsers and how far
> back a web site should allow for?
Sure!
"Support the browsers that your customers (and potential customers) are using."
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If you are offering a customizable, AJAX-driven, Twitter-entwined,
geolocated, cool app for customers to use on their iPhone, you can
probably drop IE4/5/6 and Netscape 4.7 support.
If you're trying to sell salvaged house hardware, you should probably
be supporting WebTV, dial-up (speed way more important that browser!),
HTML 4.01 and AOL., if that's what you find your customers are using.
If you are offering Windows-only software, perhaps you don't need to
target Safari and iPhones or Konqueror.
I build web apps for many customers, and I prefer (and primarily
target) the current and previous versions of the most popular
browsers, in order: FireFox, Internet Explorer, Safari. Acceptance
criteria varies for each of my customers: European companies might
want Opera testing, Far East firms want UTF-8 l18n, cutting edge firms
want XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.1 or 3. That said, I target making 100% valid
code, then back off as needed for functionality. That makes the pages
viewable in the maximum variety of browser, imo.
That might take a bit of effort:
And I hate to mention it last, but accessibility, testable and
verifiable, needs to be a priority for us as well.
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Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
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