Re:The problem with calling technologies dead too soon.
by jodrellblank on Saturday May 01, 2010 @01:05PM
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People who run IE6 aren't going to know what a browser is, or what IE6 is. Your examples aren't cutesy and progressive, they're smug and unhelpful.
And one day, I'll be visiting someone's house and remember a great chocolate recipe from your wife's blog, will sit down at a computer running IE6 and try to visit your site, and your messages will have me shouting "It's none of your business what browser this is, I didn't choose it; just show me the site so I can copy some text out. I don't care how badly rendered and mangled it is, that's my problem not yours. If you want to serve it up picture perfect then make it a freaking PDF, that's what PDF is there for, it's not what HTML is there for".
And one day, I'll be visiting someone's house and remember a great chocolate recipe from your wife's blog, will sit down at a computer running IE6 and try to visit your site, and your messages will have me shouting "It's none of your business what browser this is, I didn't choose it; just show me the site so I can copy some text out. I don't care how badly rendered and mangled it is, that's my problem not yours. If you want to serve it up picture perfect then make it a freaking PDF, that's what PDF is there for, it's not what HTML is there for".