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RE: OT: IE 5 *required* for accessing a web site?!
Subject:RE: OT: IE 5 *required* for accessing a web site?! From:"Jessica N. Lange" <jlange -at- oee -dot- com> To:"TechWR-L" <TECHWR-L -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:03:43 -0400
John found:
> ... dataloom.com .....message indicating that I needed
> to have Internet Explorer 5.0 or better to access their site!
>Why would anyone intentionally limit visitors in such a way?
The ignorance or arrogance of the web page designer.
Too many of them come from the print world where they
have total control over what the user sees, and they
want that on the web. The only reasonable method of
doing that is (1) pick a specific browser/version/OS, and
then (2) code the page for it. To accommodate multiple
browsers, versions, & OSs requires a lot of hard work or
giving up control.
BTW, this site (dataloom.com) has a new definition for SME:
"for small to medium enterprise users (SME's) "
