[Gllug] css upgrade - the holy grail

John Levin john at technolalia.org
Sun May 27 12:50:12 UTC 2007


Paul Rayner wrote:
> On 27 May 2007, at 08:29, Mark Preston wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
> ...
>> I would be grateful for any comments and suggestions for improvements.
>> See
>> http://www.markpreston.co.uk/index.html

> 
> Looking at your site on my mac, this alert is annoying
> 

+1

>> As you are viewing this page on a Mac platform please
>> note that the Mac-only version of Internet Explorer 4.5
>> may not run all scripts correctly due to browser issues.
> 

And why the version number 4.5? The early OS X releases came with IE 5.2 
(the last release was 5.2.3) and OS X 10.4 doesn't ship with IE at all 
(can't remember if 10.3 shipped with it either; at any rate, Safari was 
prefered by then).

> It's also the first thing a Mac user will see when visiting your site.
> 
> The number of mac users using IE is probably very small indeed (IIRC,  
> IE was dropped before the intel switch, and Safari was  the preferred  
> browser for a long time before that).
> 

<snip>
> 
> Opera:
> 
> 	Opera/9.01 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X; U; en)
> 

Latest Opera is 9.21:
Opera/9.21 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X; U; en)

HTH

John
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