- From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@netimages.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 19:31:25 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "Jason O'Brien" <jaobrien@fttnet.com>
- cc: "'www'" <www-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Jason O'Brien wrote: [snip] > right now, I recommend and design my pages > primarily for MSIE 3.0, because of its advanced features, support of the > OBJECT tag, BGSOUND, and better use and installation of plug-ins, among > many other features. [snip] Bad mistake. You have written off _at least_ 85% of your potential viewership, right off the top. I write to a subset of the 3.2 DTD + CSS1 stylesheets. My documents reach over 98% of people (I use JPEGs and TABLEs - else it would be 99.9%+ - lynx really needs to implement TABLE...). Do my pages look *best* on NS3.0 and MSIE 3.0? Damn straight they do. Do I annoy people uselessly with 'get NS/MSIE 3.0' buttons and 'Looks better in browser of the week' labels? Not on your life. The people who *have* those browsers already know it looks nice in them. Those who have other browsers are not going to switch just because I say so - why annoy them? The pages are usable (even attractive) in nearly any browser. -- Benjamin Franz
Received on Thursday, 17 October 1996 22:31:40 UTC