Re: Rant !

Well, in my particular case I am not designing for customers or a
corporation. My sites are all on my ISP's server, and they only alot a
certain amount of server space. I don't have the space to make an alternate
site for each of my pages. I have one site up that DOES have an alternate
for older browsers, I have another one that's very basic and can be viewed
by most browsers out there, my third site I decided I wanted a certain look
and feel because of the content of the site, and the latest site I put up is
an HTML & CSS tutorial. It wouldn't make sense to provide an alternate for
this site becuase I wouldn't be able to use the CSS lessons for it. I viewed
my tutorial site in NN 4.7 and it totally mangled it! It was literally
unusable, so, the only alternative I had was to offer a download for the
newest browser. I think as CSS becomes more widely used (which is now
starting to happen) people are going to have to update their browsers or be
left behind. Please don't take this the wrong way. I really don't want to
exclude people from my site, it's just that I don't have too many options
right now for what I'm trying to accomplish. Just my $.02 FWIW.


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>
> Two web-sites I've visited in the last week won't let me enter them
because I'm
> running IE4. In both cases they tell me their site doesn't support my
browser
> and provide me with links to the "latest". It seems that rather than
making
> their site actually work with older browsers or at least finding ways
around
> problems, a lot of developers are now taking the easy, but least
> viewer-friendly, method of just not supporting them.
>
> I assume no-one on this list supports this kind of thing ?
>
> David.
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