Re: Target browsers for web development

I thought the original post was asking the question of browser support in very general terms.  For example, if you're designing a site and don't know the exact browser that users will use, should you still try to support older browsers?

Of course, as Dey and others pointed out, if you have a browser, say for an intranet, that you know all users will use (and it happens to be a version 4 browser), then you development for that browser.  That one seems to be a no-brainer.

So, yes, I agree that it is very important to know your audience and the technology they will be using and develop for that.  I'm not advocating that we should develop only for the latest browsers when we know that all of our users have Netscape 4.

I think that since the majority of users are using standards-compliant browsers (at least from the server logs of the sites that I've worked on recently), then the majority of the effort should go to making sites that work for them.

Maybe it is just that some many of us are Mac users and feel we should always take up for those in the minority using inferior technology :)

sm


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