Netscape Compatible necessary?

Can this affect paid submissions?

[jgar]

We have a site that (sorry for this folks) is not yet very Netscape or Mac compatible.

Our options are:
1)Submit the site as it is to Yahoo and pay the fee and hope for the best.
2)Provide additional Netscape and/or Mac compatible versions (but with reduced functionality)and then submit the site to Yahoo and pay the fee
3)Wait a long while until we're compatible with all browsers before submitting to Yahoo and paying the fee.

What would you do in my position?

[EliteWeb]

Make your site compatible for NS/Mac (: Spend the few hours to research why its not working right, changes are you've written BAD code that is not rendered the way MS does it. ;)

[JamesR]

In what area are your compatibility problems?

EliteWeb got it right, it has to be Netscape compatible to get into Yahoo.

[jgar]

In which areas are we incompatible?

We have many javascript games, and the object model of Netscape/Mac seems to be different, less user-friendly.

IE seems to accept a less rigourous object-pointing syntax than the other browsers. All in all, it would be a huge task to reprogramme everything.

This is set against the statistics that I am hearing, that more than 90% of users are using Internet Explorer.

Please let me know if you disagree.

[JamesR]

>This is set against the statistics that I am hearing, that more than 90% of users are using Internet Explorer.

I would agree based on my findings but we know for certain that the editors at Yahoo look at sites through Netscape. However, they may not actually try out your games. If the site looks OK in Netscape, you may be able to get by.

[victor]

> This is set against the statistics that I
> am hearing, that more than 90% of users
> are using Internet Explorer

I think the best we can say is 90% (or whatever) of browsers are reporting themselves as IE. A browser ID string can be pretty much anything you like.

I have to set Opera to claim to be IE sometimes so I can browse IE-only sites.

[Eric_Jarvis]

Yahoo may well refuse the site unless you make it Netscape and mac compatible...in fact I'm prepared to bet a beer on it...it certainly won't meet their submission criteria

[Son_House]

What's that saying, there is always an exception to the rule. Something like that. Anyway we have a non commercial site that has been in Y! for years. A while back we submitted another page from that site and with in a week a Y! editor showed up. To our surprise this editor was using MSIE 6.0 on Win2K

[jgar]

I guess the consensus is, Netscape compatibility is a good idea.

If we opt for Netscape 6.2 compatibility and don't include compatibility with Netscape 4.x, do you think Yahoo will find this acceptable?