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I've done a site about a year or two ago - I don't make websites, but I was pushed into it. So, client wants modern, slick design, some JS functionality etc... and in the end I've received an email with a question why doesn't it work on their windows '95 IE5 computer. I've politely forwarded links to microsoft site where it states '95 and IE5 are not supported anymore, so why should I support it then? By that logic I should support commodore 64 browsing the site.

However, if you are doing an application and you have time/resources/will to test and develop on one or two browsers, then state it obviously on the application gateway. This was just a lazy forwarding to error page. MobileMe does a nice, polite notice if you are there with unsupported browser, check it out.



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