Re: Rant !

Luckily, most of the contracts that I get are for intranet applications/db
work. So far all of them have required their users to view the sites in Ie
5.x +  which really makes my job very very nice('cept when the latest IE
security hole pops up...). When I build a site for the web, I only attempt
to support 4.x and higher Netscape and Ie and the last two versions of AOL.

Based on the site and their prospective customer base, if necessary, I'll
build a totally different version for WebTv.  We had a site with 5 million
members, and of those 5 million members, 75% of the entire WebTv user base
was represented.  The WebTv members were the most active user group on the
site.  They revisited more often, viewed more pages, spent more time and
purchased more products than _any_ other user group that we had. It was
amazing to us how loyal they were.

Andre


----- Original Message -----
From: <David.Artiss(at)boots.co.uk>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 6:00 AM
Subject: Rant !


>
>
> 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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