http://www.jimmygrewal.com/?p=187
Bittersweet news indeed, but for us themers, this will certainly help out, no longer do we need Mac IE specific hacks, this browser has been phased out and as word spreads and people adopt Safari, our CSS should start to become a little bit cleaner, and a little bit easier to maintain and write.
Just some forward thinking for anyone working on new themes (myself included).
ted (m3avrck)
Op dinsdag 27 december 2005 20:19, schreef Theodore Serbinski:
http://www.jimmygrewal.com/?p=187
Bittersweet news indeed, but for us themers, this will certainly help out, no longer do we need Mac IE specific hacks, this browser has been phased out and as word spreads and people adopt Safari, our CSS should start to become a little bit cleaner, and a little bit easier to maintain and write.
Just some forward thinking for anyone working on new themes (myself included).
Not really;
No-longer-supprted does not mean no-longer used (unfortunately).
And don't forget that a lot of Mac(hardware) cannot run anything else then ie5! These people have no choice but to continue on that broken browser.
Bèr
On 12/27/05, Bèr Kessels ber@webschuur.com wrote:
Op dinsdag 27 december 2005 20:19, schreef Theodore Serbinski:
Not really;
No-longer-supprted does not mean no-longer used (unfortunately).
And don't forget that a lot of Mac(hardware) cannot run anything else then ie5! These people have no choice but to continue on that broken browser.
Right, I never said it was no longer used, but because support has been dropped, we *should* start to see a nice shift away from IE5 to Safari which should help out themers a lot, hence the "forward thinking" remark.
Should we implement this second and drop IE5 support? No, probably not.
But, if you are planning a very complex theme in the near future and know for a fact you have minimal people with Mac IE5 visiting your site, well then, it makes sense that you should not really have to worry about these users as much, since more than likely, they will either upgrade to Safari or something else sometime soon (whether it be a new machine or whatever). Now, how soon is soon, well, we'll just have to wait and find out :-)
So just to reiterate, food for though for *future* themes...
ted
Op dinsdag 27 december 2005 23:19, schreef Theodore Serbinski:
Right, I never said it was no longer used, but because support has been dropped, we *should* start to see a nice shift away from IE5 to Safari which should help out themers a lot, hence the "forward thinking" remark.
afaikr safari does not, and will never run on older machines/ mac osversions. is that correct?
Bèr Kessels wrote:
No-longer-supprted does not mean no-longer used (unfortunately).
And don't forget that a lot of Mac(hardware) cannot run anything else then ie5! These people have no choice but to continue on that broken browser.
I've long ago dropped support for MacIE5 - without a bit of regret. Its a shame that some people must be left behind - but even $0.01 of billable person/hour time spent developing for that piece of crud is too much. This is glorious news indeed - now I have a better excuse than "its a waste of my time" to not support it.
andre
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andre wrote:
Bèr Kessels wrote:
No-longer-supprted does not mean no-longer used (unfortunately).
And don't forget that a lot of Mac(hardware) cannot run anything else then ie5! These people have no choice but to continue on that broken browser.
I've long ago dropped support for MacIE5 - without a bit of regret. Its a shame that some people must be left behind - but even $0.01 of billable person/hour time spent developing for that piece of crud is too much. This is glorious news indeed - now I have a better excuse than "its a waste of my time" to not support it.
andre
Once or twice, I've offered the client the option -- "Do you want me to take X amount of hours trying to get the functioning website to work on this arcane browser that is used by people with machines that are 5+ years old?"
I think anyone still using IE Mac on an old Mac OS machine probably would not be able to shop online or view many websites already.
Sometimes, just sometimes, the lowest common denominator is just a smidge too low.
Laura
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