2002-02-28 15:46:01+00 by Dan Lyke 9 comments
So as part of this usual mental masturbation about changing Flutterby's design I went through the logs looking for client strings. A hell of a lot of you are still using Netscape 4.x browsers. And not even 4.7x. Wow. Okay, guess I will be worrying about how things degrade still, guess I have to put in those hooks to make the appearance options really work if I put up the snazzier versions.
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#Comment made: 2002-03-01 12:26:47+00 by: meuon
The real world is well behind the bleeding edge. Sorry Dan, it just is. I suppose I could go get the latest 'browser thingy' but.. I have not been forced to yet.
#Comment made: 2002-03-01 16:08:22+00 by: Dan Lyke
I'm actually impressed that my anti browser upgrade campaign whining was actually justified. I thought I was just being a Luddite, but especially the number of Mac users hitting with 4.0x is pretty damned impressive. CSS might be an option, but it won't be the default.
#Comment made: 2002-03-01 18:18:40+00 by: Larry Burton
No, Dan, you've got to make them change. ;-)
#Comment made: 2002-03-01 18:30:17+00 by: Dan Lyke
Well, I'd try to force the issue, but... well... I've seen Meuon's gun cabinet, and I know he's a better shot than I am. I think I'll let him keep his browser...
#Comment made: 2002-03-03 01:06:51+00 by: ebradway
Did you think that one of the reasons these people frequent Flutterby is BECAUSE it works on their browser?
Will converting to CSS improve the content?
#Comment made: 2002-03-03 02:30:28+00 by: Larry Burton
It could help unclutter the content. CSS shouldn't cause a well structured HTML 4 or XHTML document to not work anyplace.
#Comment made: 2002-03-03 03:44:09+00 by: topspin
It ain't meuon I worry about.
Isaac gets to use whatever browser he wants.
#Comment made: 2002-03-04 17:12:12+00 by: other_todd
I hit it generally either on my Mac or my Sun box at work, and in both of those places I have avoided going to a higher version of Netscape (i.e. above 4.x), for divers reasons. I am probably any number of those 4.x hits you're seeing.
But that's going to change. We are under pressure from students and faculty to go to 6.x on all platforms as the Institvte's supported browser. Alas. I'd rather have gone with Mozilla (at this point Netscape is really just a two-versions-behind snapshot of Mozilla code anyhow, and Mozilla is easier to customize to our peculiar needs).
This Mac will never go above 4.x. It just won't happen. If I find a page that I can't read properly on it, I go over to the PC with IE 5.something and use that. This Mac is frozen in time permanently.
#Comment made: 2002-03-04 20:06:02+00 by: Dan Lyke
Eric: Two reasons I've been considering going CSS:
I'm still weighing those against all the down-sides of CSS, but have been saved by real decisions by the fact that I need about two weeks of unemployment to catch up again.