Ancient Browsers - Who Needs 'Em?
Ancient Browsers - Who needs em?
Well, I've got someone who's having trouble seeing the new version of my site, but they're using AOL 4.0 for Macintosh, of all things. I'd be somewhat inclined to just let it pass, except that this person is my mother!
Okay, I'll help her upgrade when I get the chance, but it got me thinking about how many average people don't ever upgrade their browsers until absolutely forced to.
It also bugs me that I can't track down what the incompatibility issue exactly is. My latest guess (to be tested when she next checks email) is that she's choking on my <?xml namespace.../> or my DOCTYPE declarations. The browser keeps trying to download the site as a file. At first I thought it was choking on receiving PHP files, then I thought it might be the linked in stylesheet; I mean, who knows what AOL 4.0 isn't capable of handling? I certainly don't, off-hand.
Anyway, I sent her to various sub-pages and dummy pages on my various websites, and php extensions and linked css pages offer no problem. For a bit, I suspected that it was a JScript issue, except that (a) that makes no sense, and (b) I haven't changed any of the client scripts since the last version of the site, which she could see fine. Did one of my advertisers do something goofy with one of their scripts?
Nah, that still wouldn't make sense. I think it's got to be something to do with the site being in xhtml. Of course, I've never had problems before with XML-stupid browsers reading XHTML, but who knows.
It's also hard to troubleshoot this sort of thing over the phone, of course. If I get a chance, I'd like to actually sit at her machine and try things from there.
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Well, I've got someone who's having trouble seeing the new version of my site, but they're using AOL 4.0 for Macintosh, of all things. I'd be somewhat inclined to just let it pass, except that this person is my mother!
Okay, I'll help her upgrade when I get the chance, but it got me thinking about how many average people don't ever upgrade their browsers until absolutely forced to.
It also bugs me that I can't track down what the incompatibility issue exactly is. My latest guess (to be tested when she next checks email) is that she's choking on my <?xml namespace.../> or my DOCTYPE declarations. The browser keeps trying to download the site as a file. At first I thought it was choking on receiving PHP files, then I thought it might be the linked in stylesheet; I mean, who knows what AOL 4.0 isn't capable of handling? I certainly don't, off-hand.
Anyway, I sent her to various sub-pages and dummy pages on my various websites, and php extensions and linked css pages offer no problem. For a bit, I suspected that it was a JScript issue, except that (a) that makes no sense, and (b) I haven't changed any of the client scripts since the last version of the site, which she could see fine. Did one of my advertisers do something goofy with one of their scripts?
Nah, that still wouldn't make sense. I think it's got to be something to do with the site being in xhtml. Of course, I've never had problems before with XML-stupid browsers reading XHTML, but who knows.
It's also hard to troubleshoot this sort of thing over the phone, of course. If I get a chance, I'd like to actually sit at her machine and try things from there.
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