Comments on: New FBA Website Coming Soon…

By: Candradasa

Candradasa — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:49:21 +0000

Hi Chris, thanks for your feedback. We decided to include the splash page on browser use because many of our visitors are on older versions of IE than you. We do test for all browsers, and as I think it mentions we will make the site compatible with as wide a range as we reasonably can. However, as you may also know, IE8 – even fully patched, etc. – is not HTML5 compatible, which we will be using where possible for both video and audio streaming. Sadly, as you may have heard too, when HTML5-friendly IE9 comes out in the autumn it will rather inexplicably not install on Windows XP! So, many folk on Windows machines will have to upgrade their whole system to Windows 7 (or Vista?) or change browser… So we thought we’d get that ball rolling in our own community (not always the most up-to-date when it comes to web use) and offer a gentle nudge in the right direction.

Just to reassure, we don’t have any ideological position on browser use – and if you wish to keep using IE8 on your PC as you do presently then the site should work well for you, but you will miss out on a few HTML5 bells and whistles.

Best wishes,

Candradasa

By: Chris Middleton

Chris Middleton — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:29:56 +0000

Just popped on to have a look at this and been told I am using an “older browser”. While current versiona of Firefox, Safari, Chrome etc. might be considered “new”, a fully patched and up-to-date IE8 is hardly outdated in my opinion. I write websites for clients – I test in IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. I don’t understand your thinking here especially as IE still has a majority share of the market. Can you explain?

Thanks, Chris

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