From: Steve W. <sw...@pa...> - 2001-11-16 02:20:23
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Adam Shand wrote: > > > (I like your SpiroLattic layout very much. Though, personally, I > > think it's too early to drop support for 4.0 browsers, I suppose I > > could be convinced otherwise.) > > i think shipping in a form which doesn't support 4.0 browsers is okay so > long as there's a fairly trivial option to revert back to something saner > for people who need support for older clients. > > at somepoint we have to ditch 4.0 clients and focus effort on doing the > right thing in the future and i think we're pretty close to that point. i > was the last person i knew that used netscape 4.77 on a regular basis and > i swapped over to mozilla/galeon a few months ago and have been very > happy. I've read that IE is as much as 80% of the browser traffic today. I think this is really unfortunate. I want PhpWiki to support Lynx, Emacs' w3 mode, and all browsers of all versions. It's just text. I think it's more important to focus on features like version control, XML dumps, and features like that... the layout should be uncluttered and simple. A Wiki, any Wiki, is about ease of use and writing hypertext. Out of the box, PhpWiki should support all browsers. I think that xhtml output won't pose much trouble: if you properly add spaces in tags like <br />, the 4.x browsers don't care. (However, is that all 4.x browsers?) So, out of the box: no Javascript, no fancy CSS. Please. We can pack in all we want though, and make it easy to enable. By all means, stylesheets and Javascript only supported in Mozilla would be most welcome by me! :-) ~swain --- http://www.panix.com/~swain/ "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." -- Frank Zappa |