Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]good point. we may make peurile analogies between cameras and cars; were we to do so with cameras and computers, the leica would clearly be the antithesis of anything wintel. - -rei Macintosh G3, 8.5 (someday something running OSX) Sun Ultra5, Solaris 2.7 > From: George Hartzell <hartzell@cs.berkeley.edu> > > I haven't had time to look through the content much, but something on > the front page caught my attention: > > --->This site is optimized for viewing in Internet Explorer 5. > ---> Netscape browsers may not display content correctly. > > It sent a bunch of thoughts swirling around my noggin' (in decreasing > order of rationality): > > - what features did you use that break non-IE browsers? > > - any problem w/ Mac IE, or will either version work? > > - do you have stat's from your site that give you a handle on how > many folks you've abandoned (<-- uh oh...) > > - are you using hand-coded html, or are you stuck w/ this > restriction because of your authoring tool's restriction? > > - <rant>How could you abandon the noble goal of cross-platform > compatibility???</rant> Seriously, I'm interested in what > motivated/drove the decision. > > g. >