I hate to say it, but I think that they might have a point. Sites built with the "Designed for the latest cutting edge technology that we like; if you don't have it, upgrade or F off even though you know that everytime you upgrade something on your windows machine it screws everything up" school of web design are going to have to brace themselves for the fact that somewhere off in the ether there's a minority that's going to be pissed. You just get the added bonus of seeing them in person. I wish that more web developers got a chance to meet the people who can't use the stuff that they build. I can just see a nice encounter between flash only site developers and a room full of blind users.

Back in the day when people payed me too much money to build the damn things, I created seperate templates for Lynx / IE3, Netscape 4, and bleading edge browsers. A lot of times we'd also have to support HTML templates for various Email clients for press releases and mailing lists and the like. (makes dealing with quirky browsers seem like child's play. At least they've got some documentation.)

When justifying the work that it took to support these ancient machines I had a whole speech prepared about being a business and how turning away even 1% of your customers can mean the difference between success and chapter 7. I'll spare you.

Personally, I think that it would be good for you to learn how to make the site work for these people. Yes, it is a headache at first, but you get used to it. Just another skill to put on your toolbelt, although a very schizoid/psycho skill. Hell's bells, compared to dealing with all the BS of cross platform GUI development, it's a walk in the park.

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