Comments on: Everything I know about CSS is right! http://nickcowie.com/2008/everything-i-know-about-css-is-right/ Web standards, accessibility and such like with a bias toward Government web sites Mon, 21 May 2012 14:57:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nick http://nickcowie.com/2008/everything-i-know-about-css-is-right/comment-page-1/#comment-37426 Nick Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:31:57 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/?p=324#comment-37426 Hmmm the FU approach failed in the late 90s and will be even less successful now. If I am at work and I can’t view a website in the corporate browser IE6. Because it is the only browser that can access the Human Resources and Financial systems and I can’t upgrade or use another browser because it is a corporate environment and everything is locked down. So what do I do, email the URL home to access it there or use my phone to access the site, not likely if the site does not work in IE6 what chance IE on WM6? No I will go to another site for the information. The 25% or so of all IE users still using IE6 are a mix of corporate clients who can not upgrade because it will break (or fear it will break) other systems, people with older systems (still XP though) who do have auto updates turned off and do not manually update and surprisingly for me the number of people with new netbooks like the ASUS eee or Acer Aspire One running a lightweight version of XP with IE6 as the default browser. While the first two groups are on the decline, the third group is growing. Hmmm the FU approach failed in the late 90s and will be even less successful now. If I am at work and I can’t view a website in the corporate browser IE6. Because it is the only browser that can access the Human Resources and Financial systems and I can’t upgrade or use another browser because it is a corporate environment and everything is locked down. So what do I do, email the URL home to access it there or use my phone to access the site, not likely if the site does not work in IE6 what chance IE on WM6? No I will go to another site for the information.

The 25% or so of all IE users still using IE6 are a mix of corporate clients who can not upgrade because it will break (or fear it will break) other systems, people with older systems (still XP though) who do have auto updates turned off and do not manually update and surprisingly for me the number of people with new netbooks like the ASUS eee or Acer Aspire One running a lightweight version of XP with IE6 as the default browser. While the first two groups are on the decline, the third group is growing.

]]> By: Hmmm http://nickcowie.com/2008/everything-i-know-about-css-is-right/comment-page-1/#comment-37424 Hmmm Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:15:23 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/?p=324#comment-37424 Instead of designers sitting around waiting for everyone to upgrade to IE 7 or 8 and lamenting the time it will take...Just start developing sites that only work in the newer browsers. People will upgrade then...if you wait for them it will takes years. Most people have no clue about the benefits of upgrading their software, especially something like their browser. If they are using IE then they are even less likely to upgrade since IE is a default OS browser, so they are probably much less tech savy to begin with. Take the initiative, if the sites that people visit stop working and they get a nice little message that they need upgrade to a newer version then are probably will...even MS cuts off older OS's after awhile. Instead of designers sitting around waiting for everyone to upgrade to IE 7 or 8 and lamenting the time it will take…Just start developing sites that only work in the newer browsers. People will upgrade then…if you wait for them it will takes years. Most people have no clue about the benefits of upgrading their software, especially something like their browser. If they are using IE then they are even less likely to upgrade since IE is a default OS browser, so they are probably much less tech savy to begin with. Take the initiative, if the sites that people visit stop working and they get a nice little message that they need upgrade to a newer version then are probably will…even MS cuts off older OS’s after awhile.

]]> By: web-not-so-very-master http://nickcowie.com/2008/everything-i-know-about-css-is-right/comment-page-1/#comment-37414 web-not-so-very-master Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:42:30 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/?p=324#comment-37414 This is madness! I think HTML tables aren't that bad... If there would be a way to mark table as a part of presentational markup and specify cell order so text/ audio browsers that doesn't display them could get the right order and meaning.... This is madness!
I think HTML tables aren’t that bad… If there would be a way to mark table as a part of presentational markup and specify cell order so text/ audio browsers that doesn’t display them could get the right order and meaning.…

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