As far as I can see at the end of the day you did the right thing for your department and if users are unwilling to upgrade (as even Netscape recommend from reading dws's reply above) then it is their problem. You are not excluding the data from them - in fact you made the effort to provide the text only version.

It is nearly always impossible to cater to everyone's needs unless you have a very small user base (or a very malleable one that accedes to your every desire but I don't think that's very likely!!). It has always been my opinion that you should cater only to the audience you choose to cater for. I don't mean that I try to exclude users who won't or can't upgrade to the necessary standards, (tools, web-browsers or whatever) as indeed you haven't by providing the text-based version, but I won't specifically provide the glitzy "good-looking" version to people who aren't my target audience.

Of course there is a lot of give and take involved but once you decide on your platform that's what it is and people should live with it - and be *VERY* happy you went to the effort of providing a version that they could still view - even if not so eye-catching as the original.

I try to cater to the majority... as great a common denominator as possible... but that's just me :)

Just my $.02
Neil