Help wanted to make my web site degrade gracefully for miggys

[LordOfChaos]

Hi folks,

I was a miggy user and enjoyed it a lot, but when all went bust moved on and built myself a PC. I wrote a web site when I was still using the A1200 PPC and am now in the process of a big re-write.

Although I am now writing to xhtml 1 strict and using CSS I would like to know what the state of miggy browsers are regarding what they support.

If possible I would like to be able to make it useable without changing to html 4.01. I need to make it easier in the future for me to update so don't really want to write 2 versions.

Any help, suggestions etc will be great. At the last look at my site stats I have 18% of visitors still using an Amiga so you can see where I am going, a bit of loyalty still exists with me.   :-)   :idea:

My web site is here http://www.lordofchaos.co.uk and my new test page is here http://www.lordofchaos.co.uk/sitetests/cssexperiments/chaos-newlayout2.html

[CodePoet]

No CSS support, and you'll have to drop back to html 4.01, if not html3.2 lol - You'll probably end up writing two seperate versions of the site like I did at one point, or if you're coding in PHP - check $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] for the word "amiga" and customise the output for amiga visitors accordingly

Your DHTML menu probably wont work reliably either, best to have a static list. Its really hard to "meet halfway" using a single version of each page without making it look crap for users with with newer browsers, unless the site's really simple

Sorry to be blunt.

[cecilia]

Because i've got my old Gateway articles about using ImageFX on my web site, i've kept my pages usable for amiga browsers. For fun I have added some CCS code, but only for things that still won't mess things up for IBrowse or Aweb (or even Voyager).

you can do plenty - i have popup windows, and java code and stuff all over.

The most important thing to never use illegal IE code. I never want to encourage those morons.

[blobrana]

Hum,
don`t you mean "The most important thing to  use illegal IE code. I never want to encourage those morons."?

[cecilia]

"The most important thing IS to never use illegal IE code"

typo: forgot my verb.

it happens.  :crazy:

[LordOfChaos]

CodePoet, thanks for the info. That's just what I thought I might have to do. I think I need to think things through for now and see what I will actually do. I have a few options open to me, just have to decide what the best route for me will be.

[LordOfChaos]

cecilia, the thing about what I am trying to do will be important that the code validates, I'm not sure that compromising is really a good idea in this case.

As regards to the code the 1st browser that I check it in is FireFox if it works in that, that is the benchmark. I have already found out about the strange ways of IE  :pissed:

Thanks for your input.