Sent by Bob Sawyer on 11 April 2002 10:10
-----Original Message-----
I wonder how many Mac users still have IE4.5. IE5/Mac came with OS 9, so
you're talking about an audience that still runs OS 8 (>4 years old IIRC)
and hasn't upgraded their browser yet. Of course the real consideration
remains, does this constitute a large part of your audience?
-----Original Message-----
No, probably not - I only know about the goofup because one person emailed
me to let me know about it. She wanted to sign up but couldn't because the
menu overlapped the signup form.
I look at it this way: This is a fairly "closed" site. There are a finite
number of UGA Graphic Design alumni, and out of that group, a (probably)
small percentage who will actually come to the site and a smaller percentage
still who will sign up.
So, that ONE user is a fairly large portion of the population for this site.
Yes, she's still only one user, but what am I to do? She wants to join. I
can tell her to upgrade her browser, at the possible risk of alienating her,
or I can fix it on the off-chance that there are others like her.
One member, very early on, reported to me that the site looked terrible. He
was using Netscape 3...!!
For what would normally be a fairly computer-savvy group of people, I can't
assume that they're all up-to-date in the browser department, you know?
The real consideration here is this: I created the site for fellow graphics
alumni, but also to give me a real-world platform for learning PHP, CSS, and
other technologies. I can tell this one person to upgrade her browser, and
that could fix the problem on her end. But the real problem would still
remain, and I haven't learned anything.
:-)
Thanks,
-Bob