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To reiterate: Coding for "Any Browser" doesn't mean "coding in vanilla HTML" (and has anybody ever noticed that vanilla is second only to saffron in cost, being worth several times its weight in gold? Or how versatile a spice it is?) It simply means coding pages to degrade gracefully, rather than fail miserably. Neither would I consider Netscape 4.x to be irrelevant. Nor Netscape 3.x. Nor Lynx. Yes, failing to include support for "slick new features" might make a web site less attractive to users. But so do things like entry-point pages that take 5 minutes to load on a fast dialup, and half an hour (if ever) on a slow one. Or music, or animations, that users can't get rid of. Or JavaScript or CSS calls coded in such a way that Netscape 4 just curls up its toes and cries "Heeelllllppp meeeeeeee!" unless the user disables CSS and/or JS. This whole business of declaring whole classes of users "irrelevant" because of their choice of hardware, browser, or line speed, reminds me of a catchphrase: "You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." -- James H. H. Lampert Professional Dilettante http://www.hb.quik.com/jamesl http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign
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