[Web4lib] Coding for IE5.2 on a Mac?

[Marc Bertone]

>From the Mac users that I have talked to, I believe the majority of people
are now using FireFox v2.x for their browser, followed by Safari and then
IE.  I would recommend that you show the Director of Communications the
following browser usage statistics from thecounter.com;
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2007/September/browser.php.  It looks like
you can expect maybe 1% of users still on any form of IE5.x (PC or Mac).  I
would also expect that the number would be even lower in an academic
settings, where most students are using relatively new hardware and
software.  Assuming you don't have a large Mac-lab on campus that is running
this old browser, I wouldn't spend too much time trying to hack the code to
work with a deprecated browser.

BTW, here is the link to the Microsoft site where they discuss the end of
life for the product;
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/internetexplorer/internetexplorer.aspx
?pid=internetexplorer.

-Marc

marc at springshare.com
http://springshare.com
Web 2.0 for Library 2.0




-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Nancy E. Sosna Bohm
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 10:34 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] Coding for IE5.2 on a Mac?

I've been asked to replicate a site I did for one educational institution
with different colors and content for a sister institution. Both websites
include Library pages/sites, so I think this is relevant to this list.
The Director of Communications at the sister institution uses a Mac with
IE5.2.
One of the "Suckerfish" styled menus evidentally doesn't work in IE5.2 on a
Mac.
I thought IE on Mac was obsolete.
Is this a browser for which many on this list code?

Thank you in advance for your replies,

Nancy E. Sosna Bohm
Associate Reference Librarian
Donnelley and Lee Library
Lake Forest College
sosna at lakeforest.edu


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