From: Steve McConnell (scm@pa.urel.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 11 2003 - 14:50:38 PDT
Adam: In creating the NewsCenter and redesigning other pages on
the main campus site, our target was to design to current web
standards, but in a way that degrades gracefully for earlier browsers.
That's why we not only went the dual-stylesheet route for V4 and
earlier browsers, but also use stylesheets only for typography and
design elements, not for page layout. (Netscape 4 really chokes on
CSS-P, and there's not a good way around it for pages as dynamic
as ours). Our pre-design research indicated that the number of
visitors to berkeley.edu pages using Netscape 4.x and other pre-CSS
browsers was in the single digits, but anecdotally we know that there
are entire departments around campus for whom that is the only
supported browser, and we didn't want to exclude them from the
NewsCenter pages.
When building new pages, we aim for design consistency on
IE5.5/Win, IE5.1/Mac and NS7.1/Win&Mac, and we also test for at
least basic functionality and legibility on NS4.7/Win&Mac. That's
hardly an exhaustive list of target browsers, nor even the most
current version in some cases, but it covers the vast majority of the
users we see in our logs (plus we're limited by the hardware and
supported software available to us).
Steve McConnell
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Web news editor, UC Berkeley
NewsCenter.berkeley.edu
510/643.7789
scm@pa.urel.berkeley.edu
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On 11 Jul 2003, at 13:26, Adam Hochman wrote:
Hello,
I am new to the campus and I was wondering if there are any guidelines for
browser requirements on campus. Do most departments support NN 4.x.? Are
there any stats that I can look at? I am also looking for formal
guidelines created within individual departments on campus. Can anyone
share their coding, browser, usability, design, or documentation
guidelines? I am trying to create internal guidelines for my department
and this would be very helpful.
Best Regards,
Adam
Adam Hochman
Web Project Manager
Educational Technology Services
UC Berkeley, California
510-642-8593
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