- From: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:56:05 +0300
- To: "Robert Koberg" <rob@koberg.com>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
Hi Robert! On Wednesday 20 February 2002 19:37, Robert Koberg wrote: | Hi Vadim, | > machines) | > It seems those companies tend to ignore current CSS developement. | > How to explain this? | > a) they think CSS is not important | > b) they do not know what CSS is (at least, their Top Management) | > c) they prefer to enforce own (closed) standards | > d) they have some accounting problems, which are for sure more | > important than | > CSS :-) | > e) it's not allowed to employees of those companies to post any | > comments on | > servers outside the company Intranet | > | > Have I forgot something?.. | | I used to work for Macromedia in the Learning Division (when Authorware | was still a force for CDROM...). My girlfriend was a software engineer for | Dreamweaver :) They can and do post outside the intranet with no | restrictions. It is suprising that they are not on the list (it is usually Good to know :-) I have to admit that when I was working for one of the companies listed in my mail, I had no right (permission) to post... It could cause so many troubles, that everyone prefered to stay away. | QA guys). They do feel CSS is important, but they have to put something on | the page that will work. Do you think they would have customers if they | disregarded what can actually be done? I see your point. On the other hand: when 95% of your customers use MS IE, and 95% of them use MS IE 5.x or newer - does it make sense to support version 4 browsers? I believe that there is still some Netscape 4.x user base in US - but here it's really gone. 5 months ago, it was less than 4%. So my point is: * take MS IE 5.0 as a minimum * design page with CSS working in IE 6.0-Strict (Win), MacIE 5.x and Moziulla/Netscape 6.2 * provide fallback to MS IE 5.0 users from the page above * provide fallback to version 4.x browser using *simple* layout (disable most elements) Don't get me wrong: I do not recommend to use MS IE. It hangs computer too often, and I personally can't afford to use it for purposes other than testing. But if page designed ok (according to CSS standards) - than it can be rendered ok by any standard-compliant browser. (like mine Konqueror) | | best, | -Rob -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
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