Comments on: Do I care about Internet Explorer?

By: Root

Root — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 01:16:09 +0000

My technical spec for the Gemini template is *should run consistently* in all the major browsers.

By: Paul Tomblin

Paul Tomblin — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:56:18 +0000

LOT of nice styles out there for WP, but many of them aren’t as thoughtfully planned WRT interplay with archive layouts and such

Thanks for the reminder - I have to fix the archive.php to make it work with WPGallery. Fortunately I had to do the same fix to the default theme, so I knew exactly what to change.

I’ve had to make several changes to this theme to get it working right. The next page/previous page functionality was all screwed up, I wanted the calendar above the other side-bar stuff, etc.

By: Rob Guglielmetti

Rob Guglielmetti — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:41:48 +0000

No. Two years ago there was a reason to care. Now, no. Too many good browsers and too much effort to get the word out there. There’s simply no excuse for having old-ass crap browsers on your machine, except maybe for geeks like you who are curious ad how poorly Gatesian browsers are at handling anything approaching standards-compliant. Anyone that far behind is probably not going to be interested in a lot of your blog content anyway.

And yes, there are a LOT of nice styles out there for WP, but many of them aren’t as thoughtfully planned WRT interplay with archive layouts and such. The Default layout has a lot of functionality. I’m looking to bend the default layout a little, instead of using an entirely new style.

I am very impressed with WP 1.5.

By: Paul Tomblin

Paul Tomblin — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:59:17 +0000

Well, “MSIE.*Mac_PowerPC” doesn’t appear in the top 15 agents in my webalizer logs, but then again the top 15 only add up to 50% of the hits.

By: Barry Price

Barry Price — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:49:46 +0000

Microsoft ceased all development and support of Mac IE in 2003. It’s now an officially “dead” browser.

However, check your access stats to see if a significant number of visitors still use it. It’s up to you to define ’significant’…

This theme is nice though.

By: Chris Clarke

Chris Clarke — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:30:56 +0000

OK, that comment style is kinda cool.

By: Chris Clarke

Chris Clarke — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:30:25 +0000

No, because anyone who uses IE 5.2 on the Mac isn’t worth caring about.

Maybe you could tweak your CSS to make a bunch of otherwise invisible text appear in big red letters in IE. Message of your choice.