Re: FLASH: Re: MAC

[Frederico]

On 7/12/1999 4:40 AM, Simon Mills via

simonmcalmax [dot] co [dot] uk

, said:


>In response I'd say if it was going to be a big effort to develop

>for an extreme minority then don't bother unless you know your target

>audience will be using whatever it is. Personally I'm not a great obsessive

>developing sites  for vers 3 browsers. They just don't figure on our server

>stats. Not that the majority of our sites aren't backwards compatible but

>it's not something we obsess over.


Just a thought [not a hint of snide], but has it occurred to you that 

your site doesn't draw older browsers in order to increase the stats 

because they may not be well-accomodated? I'm not suggesting this is the 

case, you seem to imply it is not, but I can tell you from experience 

that sites designed to accomodate older browsers build an audience of 

that base over time, as word gets around that you not only make room for 

older browsers, but make them welcome.


I would suggest that it may be worth keeping a quality low-end version 

available for at least a period of several months or more, until such 

time as a lengthy period of statisitics centric to a particular 

site/server prove that that particular demographic fails to return a 

value (be it in actual sales or goodwill).


I can promise you it will be a very long time before sites like Ebay and 

Amazon push away older browsers, but they clearly have the volume to 

absorb the costs. Your client needs to decide how valuable these patrons 

are for themselves.


As to your comments RE: the Mac & me, there wasn't any snideness or 

insult written into it, despite Kevin's desire to read beyond what was 

there, nor is it in an inherent part of my personality (though I freely 

admit there are many Mac users who can be quite vehement and 

insufferable, and I can get my hair up when an arguement is based on 

unfair bias or mistruths). As Kevin has admitted (and i suspected), he 

used a personal, private conversation that is months old to gauge my tone 

today, and, upon review of that conversation, it is interesting to note 

that Kevin launched the first "you're an idiot for using a Mac"-type 

comment, and yet he makes it seem as though I'm the bad guy for playing 

his game.


Thanks for starting this Monday off with bile, folks. I'll hope it's not 

a sign of the week to come.


Frederico


      ~La Fortuna aiuta gli Audaci!~



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