Web designers, do you feel that having to support older browsers is a must

[Deja Q]

Poll question: Web designers, do you feel that having to support older browsers is a must

(starting a clean thread)

Having fiddled more with Netscape 4.08 :puke: and 4.78 :puke: I'm seeing how it differs from IE and later versions, which I prefer to use. Marquees won't work :eyes: and in order for a table cell/row to have the assigned background color appear, you need to have a space or a text character in the cell! :silly: Also, DIV entries inserted by frontpage wreak havoc on ancient netscrape as well.

A pity it can't handle dynamic images (e.g. setting the width size to "100%" rather than a static #)

I managed to get some of my designs to appear normal under Netscape (especially the best of the bunch), and I'll substitute the nimble marquee tag for some bloaty external javascript if my client wants the scrolling text to be there.

Not to endorse frontpage, it loves adding redundancies to font tags, especially when I'm trying to use CSS instead... sigh.

I will try Dreamweaver 2004 MX 30 day trial, though some people from amazon.com don't dig it because it's slooooow... it'll be useful for other clients as well should I ultimately buy it...