Re: hwg-techniques-digest V1 #945

Jennifer Swartz wrote:
>I would like to make the policy that all pages need to render in 3.0 and up
>browsers (and equivalents..Opera is at 2.0 I think but acts like 3.0 and
4.0
>Netscape and IE), to make the page accessible in Lynx and validate in
Bobby.
>I think this is reasonable given that IE and Netscape 2.0 came out in 1995
>if I remember correctly...

>I am wondering if you agree with this policy or if I should continue to
>design for 1.0 and 2.0 and equivalents?  I am also wondering if anyone
knows
>where I can find good articles or statistics that show the percentages of
>2.0 browsers still being used today?  My logs don't track version, just
>name...

I'm developing web applications - rather than web pages - and we decided to
cut off at 4.0.  Part of the rationale was that 4 & 5 browsers are freely
available - so if people are running 3 they are probably too poor to afford
a decent computer - so they aren't going to be able to buy our stuff.  What
we are looking at, though, is XHTML Basic - because I think our next
generation of users will be using mobile phones, WebTV & similar devices.
We looked at a couple of sites that had browsers stats - unfortunately I
don't have the URLs here - and there really weren't too many 2s & 3s out
there.

Cheers,

Simon

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