Basically, if you code standards-compliant HTML and CSS, your site will look the same in Mozilla, Opera and Safari. So it’s already more important to have your website work with Mozilla than with any old browser. The tipping point for me was that Gecko-based browsers have overtaken IE4/5 and Netscape 4 recently (this is probably a safe bet according to recent web statistics). No problem, that will simply go away when we buy a new computer." While this is of course not representative, it supports my growing opinion that we can start to ignore old browsers. I recently talked to two people that still surf the web with these old browsers, and they both basically said the same: "We’re used to having problems with websites, our browsers are old. But with these browsers vanishing, we can finally start to ignore them.Īnd it’s not just the declining number of these browsers. For many years, this was not possible due to the vast number of legacy browsers, Internet Explorer 4 and 5 and Netscape 4 deployed on the computers around the planet. With the recent browser statistics, that show Internet Explorer 6, Mozilla/Firefox, Safari/Konqueror and Opera combined at around 95%, it is finally feasible to write modern, CSS-based websites.
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