- From: Steve Mulder <smulder@ziff.shore.net>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:11:11 -0400
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Yes, but when "cutting off old technologies" translates into "cutting off part of my audience," then this MS "feature" becomes an annoying bug. Eventually, yes, we'll have to abandon IE 3 as a primary "platform" to design for. But for now, it's simply too ubiquitous to ignore. To echo a phrase we've been hearing here lately, prudent Web designers need to design for *both* versions for now. And unless you have two Windows machines on your desktop, that's near impossible! Hence the ARGH!!! steve At 06:48 AM 7/28/97 -0700, Gordon Blackstock wrote: >Actually, this is one of the best "features" of the MS browsers. The worst part of web development is having to accommodate people who are still using versions 1 and 2 of Navigator - "crippleware." The features of the level 4 browsers [vs. level 3 and below] approach the differences between Lynx and the first version of Mosaic. At some point, as developers, you have to make the hard decision to cut off old technologies; how many of you still write and/or compile programs that will run on an 8088 or an 80286? Better still, any TRS-80 UA authors out there? > >gordon > >-----Original Message----- >From: Steve Mulder [SMTP:smulder@ziff.shore.net] >Sent: Monday, July 28, 1997 6:14 AM >To: www-style@w3.org >Subject: Re: Issue 1: Font-weight and headings > >At 10:31 PM 7/26/97 -0400, Liam Quinn wrote: >>(I'd like to >>confirm, but unfortunately Microsoft won't allow me the pleasure of >>running IE3 and IE4 on the same computer.) > >May I just say, quickly and with great passion, in full agreement: ARGH!!! > >steve > > >``````````````````````` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` >S T E V E M U L D E R smulder@ziff.shore.net > http://ziff.shore.net/~courses/mulder > > >
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