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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Hi. On the browser-part... I'd say it totally depends on the sites purpose and targetgroup. If you are designing a commercial site meant for the general public, you have an obligation to the client to fulfill the clients requirement specification, these will on the browser issue in 99% of all cases be this: "The site should be accessible and fully usable in all browsers (possibly insert version 4+ here) on all platforms, including Mac." In effect this means that you stay away from elements that can't be reproduced in a reliable way in the enviroments the spec states. You may or may not agree that this is right, or even sensible requirements, you can back this up with all the stats you can possibly dig up, but it's still the clients call to make. They will probably (hopefully) know their targetgroup and have made this desicion based on getting max return from all visitors. If you on the other hand want to target those who want to buy great webdesign, I'd say, let all browsers into the site, give them the main content then you can exclude mac, or opera, or ns as you please to demonstrate what can be done. In short, lot's of companies still have a heritage of netscrape 4 as default browser installation for no other reason that lack of time to upgrade, or policy. Don't exclude the desicionmakers in those companies from wiewing your site... For personal sites, I don't care, I prefer full crossbrowser incl NS, but that's me. On the iframe... I've experimented with this both on the web and in mails to see what it can and can't do (we had alittle bet a co-worker and me whether I could get into his personal pc). Quite simple, if the mail reciever or visitor have low enough settings in their office enviroment or in the browser (macros and active-x mainly) Some one can get into the core of the machine and do whatever they want (on winblows of course) using the iframes external src. So, it's definatley a potential risk! Make sure first of all that all your office-products alert you if there is macros in the document, make sure that all active-x components ask before running, and of course, as on ALL downloading of files. Now this will not close all and every hole associated whith this, but it's the least you should do. /Dan [url=http://www.dmsproject.com/] [img]http://www.dmsproject.com/gif/sig3.gif[/img] [/url] -{ a vibration is a movement that doesn't know which way to go }- Loading...
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