Re: FN-FORUM Association of New Media Freelancers

date posted 1st April 2002 14:07

> > So, while agreeing with everything you've said re standards, the
> > likelihood is that IE5/6 users account for
> > more of the 'consumer' market than most of our stats show...
>
> Sure, you can take my point and try to use it to argue the opposite of
> what I was saying if you want!
>
I was merely drawing an obvious conclusion from the information you
provided, not trying to be deliberately obtuse.....

> > which kind of gets back to my point of how long we go on trying to
> > enable NN4 users
>
> To be honest, I think we have to start to let them go. NS4 is a
> particularly irritating case, as it doesn't just not implement certain
> standards, it implements them incorrectly. They're buggy and they're now
> (thank $DEITY) obsolete. A sad statement, but it's difficult to
> do much else.
>
I am in full agreement with you on that one - I will continue to attempt to
make sites 'usable' in NN4 but getting them to look and behave the same as
intended is less and less possible...

Cheers, Paul.