Ok, so I'm less happy about it now. While I was very enthusiastic about it yesterday, my cross browser checking of today has made me think abit more critically about it. For one, it breaks under IE5.0 pc, which isn't such a big deal because that's less than 6.5% of browsers, it makes me unhappy. I just think things shouldn't break.
That being said, we're looking at a solution for an administrative interface. If we are restricting browsers to an administrative only area, is that ok?
Personally, I think that's reasonable. For one, people who are using the admin side are either the clients or administrators who installed the software. They know what the requirements are, or at least, have a better idea of what they are.
The second question in my mind is what is the baseline for what people should support now- with firefox at 1.0 it seems like that is a resonable design reference for an administration interface. For the public at large, I'm not so sure. Maybe I'm wrong here, but if you're trying to design additional functionality for clients based on javascript, it seems reasonable to demand that they use a better browser.
