[Web4lib] Browsers to test

[Leo Robert Klein]

I knew was opening myself up to this even before I hit the send button. 
  Apparently everyone's driving a 10-year-old car...

Still, 10 years for a web browser (that wasn't all that great to begin 
with) is time enough!  In "web years", it's a century.

LEO


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Turner,Kathleen wrote:
> Ahem.  Can we have a show of hands here?  How many of us are quite happy
> driving cars that are 10+ years old?
> 
> Proud owner of a '94 Corolla . . .  
> 
> 
> Kathleen H. Turner
> Web/Education Librarian
> W.W. Hagerty Library
> 33rd and Market Streets
> Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875
> 
> Tel: 215.895.6783
> Fax: 215.895.2070
> khturner at drexel.edu
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Leo Robert Klein
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 1:51 PM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Browsers to test
> 
> Andrew Hankinson wrote:
>> It's pretty much impossible to get modern browsers and legacy browsers
> 
>> to agree on the same code.  Browsers such as NS4 should be obsoleted 
>> ASAP, same with IE4 and possibly IE5.  If you absolutely need to 
>> support these browsers, you're probably better off redirecting them to
> 
>> a bare-bones, text-only version of the site.
>>
> 
> NS4 should be laid to rest -- RIP!  It came out in 1997!  How'd you like
> to drive in a car that's 10 years old -- let alone a browser?
> 
> Apropos, here's a funny presentation by Scott Andrew who used to be
> quite a scripting bunny back in the day:
> 
> http://www.scottandrew.com/ns42002/
> 
> LEO
>