[OWASP-LEADERS] Food for thought - Web Browser compatibility

[David Raphael]

I agree,

However there are a couple of situations a commonly find myself in:

1.  On old Sun Box - Solaris 8 still runs Netscape 4.7x as its default
Web Browser - and most administrators don't change this.

2.  Corporate Restrictions - I know at Ericsson we are still declaring
IE 4.0 as the Standard!  there is now reason why other Corporations
aren't doing this.

I have decided that the Portal will support Netscape only as a degraded
browser.  This isn't too hard because we've focused on structuring our
HTML very carefully ;)  And based on Ingo's recommendations I've been
able to make a lot of headway on this anyway.

The look and feel of the portal will target modern browsers only here 
is a
list:


Netscape 6+
Internet Explorer 5+
Opera (Newer Versions)
Mozilla 1+
Konqueror (New Versions)
Safari (A derivative of Konqueror)



/d

On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 09:01  AM, Jennifer Tharp wrote:

> David,
> I'm a Mozilla 1.2.1 person myself.  These statistics reflect what I've 
> been
> seeing in my work, as well.  Determined that over 50% of QA time was 
> being
> spent on old Netscape browsers -- my client subscribes to the "no 
> child left
> behind" theory of browser support.  I'd strongly argue eliminating 
> support
> for old Netscape browsers at the minimum. Our target audience is not 
> going
> to be using browsers 5 years old or older -- those are for our 
> parents.  ;)
> Jennifer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owasp-leaders-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:owasp-leaders-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of David
> Raphael
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 8:48 PM
> To: owasp-leaders at lists.sourceforge.net;
> owasp-portal at lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: mark at curphey.com
> Subject: [OWASP-LEADERS] Food for thought - Web Browser compatibility
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> First off - what Web Browser does everyone use here? Please list
> Version as well.
>
> Additionally,
>
> I have been gathering some statistics on Web Browser distibution.  Here
> is what I found
>
> http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat_trends.htm
>
> I have also seen other statistics.  But the main issue is old Netscape
> support.
>
> We are making some major design decisions regarding Browser support
> (what year do we go back to? 6 years!?).  At some point you begin to
> completely compromise decent looking design for Web pages.  Being that
> our site is Web-centric...It would seem that we are not a low-level
> Kernel Site!  But I would like to know what the priorities are for
> Browser compatibility.
>
>
> Thanks everyone,
> david raphael
>
>
>
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