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KenJackson
08-10-2006, 10:52 PM
I put in a fair amount of effort to get my site, Jackson I/O (http://jackson.io/) to display correctly in both Linux/Firefox and IE6. But I just looked at in IE5 and IE5.5 and it looks terrible!

I'm going to have to go back and find all those notes on old IE bugs and hacks, but can anyone give me a heads up to save some time?
metalman3d
08-11-2006, 02:12 PM
Something to think about for your kind of site. Odds are the people that are going to visit your site are going to be tech savy. They'll most likely have an up to date browser. If nothing else, they'll know how to upgrade their browser. Meanwhile, I believe I remembered seeing somewhere that some of those old hacks may cause newer browsers to have problems in the future. I'm not saying it's bad to be backwards compatible with older browsers, it's just you have to do a cost/benifit analysis of your time and effort vs. the amount of people visiting your website with old browsers. I know there's analytics programs that will tell you what browser your computer is using. Just my few cents.
felgall
08-11-2006, 06:43 PM
Check your browser stats to see what percentage of visitors are actually using older browsers. Code your pages so that they work in browsers that follow the standards (Firefox, Opera, and Safari) as well as non-standard browsers that have sufficient visitors to make it worth the effort. Make sure that the page is still usable in other browsers even if it does look totally different from what you want.

With my computer help web site those non-standard browsers that have sufficient visitors for me to be concerned about the browser are IE6 (66%) IE5.5 (1.5%) IE7 (1%) and Netscape 4 (0.2%). The other non-standard browsers have too few visitors for me to worry about and the pages don't look perfect in either IE5.5 or NS4 but they still look as good as is possible with those browsers as is possible without having to write custom pages for them. I usually check my pages in Lynx and a webTv emulation to check that the pages will still be usable in other browsers.