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Posted by Andy Dingley on 10/26/06 11:38
Gérard Talbot wrote:
> How about telling visitors using buggy, old, non-web-standards-compliant
> browsers
How do we identify them? This isn't easy if it's to be robust.
It's practical to identify NS4, but is it really necessary to? NS4
users will have noticed by now that things don't always work tooo well,
and if they're still using it, then presumably they have some other
good reason for sticking with it. Why should one more random website be
a trigger to cause them to upgrade ?
My real objection is to sniffing for IE6, or IE7 build n-1. This sort
of fine-grained sniffing that claims last week's build is now terrible
is the real problem. This sort of test is _never_ maintained and up to
date. A bad or outdated implementation of it is worse than no
implementation.
> they may consider switching if they want his webpage code
> to render as expected (layout, formating, functionality)?
Advertise the best browsers by all means. Now's a particularly good
time to plug Firefox 2.0
But do this objectively -- "Use Firefox, it's good" rather than "Your
browser sucks, go away"
> What's so wrong with such invitation?
The OP is presumably trustworthy -- but should we encourage an attitude
that random websites recommend you to install random browsers that may
very well be dubious?
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