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 questions George... I was wondering the same. I use IE, my wife uses NN. My son-in-law uses some Unix thingy. My suspicions are that the site was built using Microsoft tools, which we all know, is the king pin of compatibility... NOT! Jim >Johnny Deadman writes: > > [...] > > If you have time & inclination, please check it out and let me know what you > > think. Bouquets and brickbats equally welcome, but do your best to break it > > please! [...] > At 07:44 AM 5/10/01 -0700, George Hartzell wrote: >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.