Re: Design Change Requests

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Upgrades are easy and not a problem...it is IE only sites, or sites that 
haven't bothered to test the site under any other browser that I find 
irritating, especially when the company's site is promoting open source 
technologies.

Am I surprised some of Microsoft web pages require IE in order to be 
viewed properly?  No.  But I find it interesting that a company like IBM 
that is promoting the use of alternatives to proprietary technologies 
(like IE) has any areas that require IE to be viewed properly.  This 
isn't a huge thing and I suppose that IBM, with hundreds of thousands of 
web pages, is doing it's best to make them cross browser friendly, but 
still, it IS irritating, at least to me.

Pete Helgren

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> A big point to consider is that some people, using FF had no problem with 
> that site.  They just used a newer version of FF.  Is it really such a 
> PITA to upgrade your browser?  Or is there some business decision to 
> remain at ancient versions of the browser in order to test any website you 
> design that it is compatible with old versions of FF?  Are there really 
> "users", and not web developers, that use something like FF and refuse to 
> upgrade to a newer version of FF?
>
> Rob Berendt
>