Re: Target browsers for web development

> The question boils down to what one considers "breaking."

I do feel that in general the web industry does not explain well to users
why it is time to upgrade and prise peoples fingers off the old, rusty
things they continue to use.

Of course if browsers were not free someone might send you an upgrade
disk...but in the real world approaches such as the one you suggest George
will provide some level of graceful degradation and should be taken.

This is why I think providing information to the user is important to
explain why it will benefit them to use newer technology, rather than just
making life easier for you as a content provider. If you talk about
standards then the latter seems to be more prominent in the message. But
this means you do have to make some effort to ensure you don't abandon users
too soon. They need to be coaxed across...

In a parrallel development, the advent of digital broadcasting means that at
some point in the next 7 years my old black and white telly will stop
working as it will no longer be able to understand the digital signals being
sent to it. Of course I can still buy a decoder to plug into it, but
ultimately it will become broken.

I don't mind though. Generally Digital TV is a good thing, and so now that I
understand the benefits of it I am happy to wave bye bye to the old fuzzy,
ghosted images that I used to get. And the government is waiting very
patiently until the vast majority have access to digital TV before switching
off the analogue signals.


Cheers,

jod

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