RE: UKNM: browser compatibility - that old chestnut

[Cait Hurley]

hmmm - being an ex-Virgin-Net-er, I know that as a back-up policy for people

with weeny computers, certainly up until recently still shipped with Nav3.


...as a result, there are a sizeable bunch of UK Net users who are using

Nav3, and probably will be doing for quite a while. Not everyone wants to

spend money on a whacking great new PC when all they want to do is word

processing or read e-mail and do a bit of shopping - and I think everyone

knows someone in that position. My Mum still uses Windows 3.1. Sure as hell

she's going to be using a 3rd generation browser when she starts up. And if

no other ISP's offer her non-bloatwear browser options, she's going to have

to go with one that does.


Fact of life. Sites for the UK market need to have a V3 enabled version or

display insufferwble ignorance (and loss of potential revenue as a result),

as Ben has pointed out.


And as for text only versions... sheesh, don't get me started.....


> -----Original Message-----

>

From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Ben

> Scott-Robinson

> Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 10:08 AM

>

To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: UKNM: browser compatibility - that old chestnut

> 

> 

> Just a little rant, since Jungle reared it's head briefly in passing.

> 

> Has anybody looked at jungle.com in a level 3 browser? In 

> Netscape 3 it's a total mess, with 

> misalignment on the frames, and a page full of code greeting 

> the unwary visitor... frankly I find 

> it incredible that a site as massively backed and much hyped 

> as Jungle has fallen foul of an 

> issue so basic that any back bedroom html jockey worth his 

> salt knows to avoid/prepare 

> for...

> 

> rantette over

> 

> Ben


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