On one side we had worries about visitors which forced us to reject new technologies
and implement old rusty stuff with tons of images for buttons, corners and everything else,
bloated fixes for multiple buged browsers. On other side there was cool, shiny, lite, easy to use,
new technologies, with round corners, gradients, one css version file for all browsers,
and all the rest.
From time i tried all these things i had feeling like im prisoner of old rusty technology,
which limits me, looking with jealousy at side where all new stuff was.
...So, i monitored trends, usage of browsers, screen resolutions, technologies, more often.
If you look at
W3C trends (or similar) and browse history of it, you will see that - its not true that people
still use crapy computers, low resolution, old browsers as we still believe.
80% are firefox and chrome. Remaining 15% owned by IE is not really old IE 7 or 8
as everyone would expect. IE 7 (1%) and 8 (7%) is faling down in light speed
along with windows XP which everyone drop like sinking ship after apearance of Windows 7.
I assume that the time when practicaly 95% of people use modern browsers - is now.
And the ones who still use 'windows 95' with same outdated technology even while
they have cool modern browsers within easy reach for completly free, cant be helped.
Because of this, i made myself free. At least !!
I assume now that everyone have decent browsers, therefore i no more play with fixes
and all that bloated stuff. I have fun with css3, rounded corners, gradient imageless buttons,
and the rest 'basic stuff' (maybe still avoiding things like 3D transforms and similar,
but theyre not really necessary yet)
I know that someone with IE 7 visiting my site would 'broke his eye'
so i simply detect in my sites anything that is below 'Mozilla/5.0' and redirect it to page
where they are asked to update browsers.
Im no more prisoner of old browsers. The time is now.
And hey, arent it end of the world ? ...then new beggining without chains.