Do I care about Internet Explorer?

I’ve been looking at some WordPress themes, and installed two that I really like. One is called “Dark Maple”, and the other is called “Quentin”. Both of them look fine on Firefox and Safari, but they look like crap on IE 5.2 on Macintosh. Should I care?

7 thoughts on “Do I care about Internet Explorer?”

  1. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

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