A warning to the legacy browser users who refuse to upgrade: Your days are numbered. When version 9.0 of this website is unleashed, the old browsers of ancient times will no longer be supported.
What I mean by that, however, is a matter of aesthetics. It does not mean my site will be inaccessable. Even if you use the very first browser created from the stone age, you will be greeted with plain old vanilla text on the site, completely legible, readable, and somewhat still useful. All I will be doing is killing off the style sheet so it doesn't look like a tornado came through here.
As long as you're using Internet Explorer 7.0+, Firefox 1.5+, Safari 1.3+, Netscape 8.0+, Chrome, Opera, iCab, AOL 8.0+, or any W3C-supported browser, you're in the clear and don't have to worry about any limitations.
And yes, for you people who insist on still using Internet Explorer 6.0, you're on the browser-dump list. I refuse to waste an extra 25-30% of my development time attempting to support one of the crappiest browsers known to man. If you're still using IE6, do all the worldly web developers a favor and upgrade, either to IE7 or another browser. If you refuse, then plain vanilla text for you! Many other developers have already pledged their unwillingness to support the browser, and I am soon happily joining them.
I did make a compromise on screen resolution. The site will dynamically expand in width, so no matter if you're using a 15" monitor with 800x600 resolution, or a 24" monitor with 1920x1200 resolution, the website will automatically adjust itself so it fills your browser window. See? I'm a nice person. |