BaseCamp drops MSIE 5
I'm glad to see IE 5.x is starting to be phased out. Granted, BaseCamp is not a website, it is a webapp. Web applications may phase out browsers with a slightly larger market share:
- They provide customers with greater added value than web sites, so these probably cope better with adapting their software to the application's requirements; and
- They push the interactivity border further than web sites, imposing a much higher cost when dealing with the mile-long bug lists of the MSIE line of browsers.
in Signal Versus Noise
Sure, we could have hacked in support for IE 5.x, or built alternate versions for older browsers, but legacy support is not the way to build a forward looking product. IE 6, Firefox, and Safari are now the tickets to ride.
