Browswer Compatibilty

[will]

How compatible are the EE scripts with the various browsers in use today? I downloaded Netscape 4.08, figuring that this might be the oldest browser I would support in designing the other areas of my site and EE doesn't display well in this browser.

Can others share their experiences?

Will
http://www.kestrelcreek.com/exhibits/

[Pekka]

I'd love to see EE pages work with old browsers but apparently most old browsers break when fed with large pages with complex nested tables, all perfectly validated html.

See http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=4924

[will]

Thanks Pekka. I looked at the older thread on this subject. I agree that it is not practical to code for every older browser. Wouldn't it be a relatively simple thing to check for the user’s browser type and version using the XSSI code like -



Then instead of creating an EE standard page, create a very simple non-table listing of at least thumbnail images in the exhibition. Then at least people with those browsers could see the exhibition. It wouldn't have to be pretty and there could be just one alternative display for all unsupported browsers (including palms and cell phones). I'm NOT proposing support for all browsers, just a single fallback page for all non-supported browsers.

I'm sure you’re familiar with XSSI but here are a couple of links discussing XSSI.

http://www.arachna.com/apache/ssi/browser_detection.html
http://www.acoustic.org/dm164/detect/xssisniffexercise.shtml

I'm sure there are things I'm not thinking about here. I'm going to explore this and I'll let you know what I come up with.

Will