WEB4LIB digest 813

[Steve Hooley]

I use the Opera browser to design web pages so I'll know what most people
will be seeing (besides, I love visiting 'Netscape-Enhanced' sites with it!)


>Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 10:52:28 -0700
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>At 7:39 AM -0700 10/5/97, JQ Johnson wrote:
>>...and the de facto standards defined by the popular browsers. Ignoring the
>>imprtance of the last is ignoring economic and practical reality.
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>In what way?
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>I mean why should I take the effort to design pages with features that can
>only be seen by the current versions of one or two browsers?
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>Also many of the students I talk to are using old versions of browsers as
>they cannot afford to, or their computers are incapable of, adding more RAM.
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>Perhaps that doesn't matter if your are a comercial site that only wants to
>reach people who have high powered machines and the expertise to upgrade
>their browsers on a regular basis but in an academic situation our patrons
>often have hand me down machines.
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