Re: CSS vs. Layers

message from Michael Fesser on 21 Jul 2004

.oO(Mark)

Says who? A "web-statistic"?

BTW: 0.3% of all people surfing the web is how much?
1.000? 100.000? A million?

most != all

Who cares? Do you know _why_ people are still using NN4? I don't, and in
fact it doesn't matter. The web is not about browsers.

And Firefox runs on old machines with low memory?

Do you build websites for browsers or for people? If a website has to
"support" certain browsers then there's something heavily wrong.

The other way round: You don't need a big 16:9 100Hz Dolby Digital color
TV (read: most recent browser) to watch recent TV productions, it's
still possible with old small flickering b/w mono screens (read: NN4).

Micha

Robert Barnett replied to Michael Fesser on 21 Jul 2004

Well, using the HD TV analogy.

What do you think is going to happen to the people that don't upgrade to
such a TV when the analog broadcasts stop. Apparently, it hasn't yet been
decided if low-res programming will continue or not. And, from what I have
read the government is very ancy to get their paws on the analog TV spectrum
to use for other things.

So what happens? The people that don't upgrade are left out. That is the way
it should be. Microsoft tried keeping the extreme backwards compatibility
with Windows by keeping DOS around for far too long. Why should the masses
suffer for those few (and in the grand collection of web surfers they are
few) that don't want to upgrade.

It seems to me that by now these people are making a conscious choice not to
upgrade for whatever reason it is. Therefore they should be prepared to
suffer the problems they will have with making such a stupid choice.

Frankly, not having the money to upgrade I think is a poor excuse. Computers
a cheap as hell today. Even if one can't upgrade to the latest and greatest
whatever, they can usually manage to upgrade enough to drop the version 4
browsers.

Robert

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