Compatibility with older browsers

Question

I was surprised to see WLP8.1 being marketed as only supported on IE 5.5,
Mozilla 1.2 and NS 7.0. For larger corporations, and customer-facing B2C
websites, it does not make sense to shut out 5-10% of the users just because
they are on older platforms...
Having said that, does anyone know how to get WLP 8.1 to work with Netscape
4.x and IE 4.x? I assume we would need to create a new skin with all
compliant CSS and JS files - has anyone had any success with implementing
something similar? Id appreciate any pointers on how to get started in the
right direction.
Thanks!
Soumit

Answer 1

When I used borders before Swing I created one panel
for each type of border I wanted. Let the panels paint-
method draw lines along the panels borders.
Something like:
public class FrameBorder extends Panel
public void paint(Graphics g)
Dimension d = getSize();
Point p = getLocation();
g.draw3DRect(p.x,p.y,d.width-1,d.height-1,true);
g.draw3DRect(p.x+2,p.y+2,d.width-5,d.height-5,false);
Should not take to much testing to come up with some nice-
looking borders.
/J