I've not seen any recommended list but if the website doesn't support Safari
it won't be available to Mac or iPhone users.
John Weller
01380 723235
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>
> Has anyone seen a standard recommendation on how many browsers and how
> far
> back a web site should allow for?
>
> Is something like this normal?
>
> IE 8
> IE 7 (?)
> IE 6 (?)
>
> FireFox
>
> Chrome
>
> Safari
>
> Opera
>
> Do you feel that you're not professional if your web site doesn't support
> Safari or Opera?
>
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> On Behalf Of James E Harvey
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> Subject: [NF] web site's browser compatibility
>
> Has anyone seen a standard recommendation on how many browsers and how
far
> back a web site should allow for?
>
> Is something like this normal?
>
> IE 8
> IE 7 (?)
> IE 6 (?)
>
> FireFox
>
> Chrome
>
> Safari
>
> Opera
>
> Do you feel that you're not professional if your web site doesn't
support
> Safari or Opera?
Does this site help you?
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
No matter how many versions of browsers you try and account for, there's
*some* bozo out there still running Netscape 1.1 or something...
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Has anyone seen a standard recommendation on how many browsers and how far
back a web site should allow for?
Is something like this normal?
IE 8
IE 7 (?)
IE 6 (?)
FireFox
Chrome
Safari
Opera
Do you feel that you're not professional if your web site doesn't support
Safari or Opera?
James E Harvey
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On the basis the M$ have just dropped support for IE 6 I'd drop that from
the list and also anything early on Firefox wise, say less than V3.2.
Dave C
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Has anyone seen a standard recommendation on how many browsers and how far
back a web site should allow for?
Is something like this normal?
IE 8
IE 7 (?)
IE 6 (?)
FireFox
Chrome
Safari
Opera
Do you feel that you're not professional if your web site doesn't support
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James E Harvey
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I'd say forget about IE6. No reason anyone should still be using it,
unless they have a particularly dumb corporate or institutional IT
department, or a load of applications that require it.
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IE6 still has ~15% of the browser market believe it or not.
Having said that, a lot of relatively large sites have said they no longer support it.
rk
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I'd say forget about IE6. No reason anyone should still be using it,
unless they have a particularly dumb corporate or institutional IT
department, or a load of applications that require it.
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On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:08 -0500, "Jarvis, Matthew" <MatJar@mckweb.com>
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> No matter how many versions of browsers you try and account for, there's
> *some* bozo out there still running Netscape 1.1 or something...
Yep - and I say screw them, you have to draw the line somewhere and for
me it would now be IE7 (in the IE world)
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> I'd say forget about IE6. No reason anyone should still be using it,
> unless they have a particularly dumb corporate or institutional IT
> department, or a load of applications that require it.
> --
Um... I checked and yes, our default browser is IE6....
I'm a bit surprised our corp overseers haven't noticed me using Firefox
all the time... plus they'd prolly freak if they knew how many times
I've been to DistroWatch.... <g>
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IE6 is the latest you can go on win2k. Many desk system still win2k works fine,
upgrade when hardware not reparable.
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IE6 still has ~15% of the browser market believe it or not.
Having said that, a lot of relatively large sites have said they no longer
support it.
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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."
---
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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