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Yahoo! UI Library: Graded Browser Support

In the first 10 years of professional web development, back in the early ‘90s, browser support was binary: Do you — or don’t you — support a given browser? When the answer was “No”, user access to the site was often actively prevented. In the years following IE5’s release in 1998, professional web designers and developers have become accustomed to asking at the outset of any new undertaking, “Do I have to support Netscape 4.x browsers for this project?”

This is an interesting way of looking at browser support. it is certainly a lot more codified than what I end up focusing on which is basically Firefox (1.5 & 2) and IE (6 - starting to work on 7) and Safari (if we get to it)

I suppose that’s part of the thing about building most of my apps for behind the firewall. I don’t have to focus on supporting every browser known to man .