Comments on: Should we give Legacy Users less Features? http://douglasstridsberg.com/blog/entries/should-we-give-legacy-users-less-features/ technology, coding, gaming and news. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:37:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Douglas http://douglasstridsberg.com/blog/entries/should-we-give-legacy-users-less-features/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Douglas Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:49:30 +0000 http://douglasstridsberg.com/blog/index/should-we-give-legacy-users-less-features#comment-21 Ah, Martin, are you afraid of sharing your real name ;) ? I agree with you on all but one issue - the design over here is not good. I can't stress how much it is in need of a renaissance - but fear not for I shall in due time address this! As you mentioned, let's see each other in physics tomorrow! Ah, Martin, are you afraid of sharing your real name ;) ?

I agree with you on all but one issue – the design over here is not good. I can’t stress how much it is in need of a renaissance – but fear not for I shall in due time address this!

As you mentioned, let’s see each other in physics tomorrow!

]]> By: Agent Smith http://douglasstridsberg.com/blog/entries/should-we-give-legacy-users-less-features/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Agent Smith Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:04:54 +0000 http://douglasstridsberg.com/blog/index/should-we-give-legacy-users-less-features#comment-20 Support for dinosaur browsers has, and will most likely always be, be the hair-ripping part of web development. While gracefully degrading web sites based on browser feature-completeness is optimal (i.e. compromising visual goodies, not functionality), I think that from a business perspective this is not feasible. For instance, YouTube has decided to drop support for IE6. Since they have millions of visitors every day, that ought to count for something. I can't even test my pages in IE6 because I have no computer which supports it, and browsershots.org doesn't make the cut. What am I to do? And what puzzles me the most is, why haven't these people upgraded yet, when IE8 has been out for months? In fact, I even think it serves as a good wake-up call for someone to find that their favourite website doesn't work in legacy browsers. Perhaps it'll prompt them to update. By the way, I really like the design over here, and the photographs are really cool. I just couldn't resist going here, see you in physics tomorrow :P Support for dinosaur browsers has, and will most likely always be, be the hair-ripping part of web development. While gracefully degrading web sites based on browser feature-completeness is optimal (i.e. compromising visual goodies, not functionality), I think that from a business perspective this is not feasible. For instance, YouTube has decided to drop support for IE6. Since they have millions of visitors every day, that ought to count for something.

I can’t even test my pages in IE6 because I have no computer which supports it, and browsershots.org doesn’t make the cut. What am I to do? And what puzzles me the most is, why haven’t these people upgraded yet, when IE8 has been out for months?

In fact, I even think it serves as a good wake-up call for someone to find that their favourite website doesn’t work in legacy browsers. Perhaps it’ll prompt them to update.

By the way, I really like the design over here, and the photographs are really cool. I just couldn’t resist going here, see you in physics tomorrow :P

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