[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

[Richard B. Gilbert]

FrankS wrote:
> On Jan 14, 8:07 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>> And if you are writting web pages that use features of ACID3 that IE
>> doesn't do and you competitor is not who is going to pay the price?
>> The target should be your desired audience and not some obscure ivory
>> tower standard.
>>
> 
> How do you define "audience"?  Is it all users that need certain
> functionality out of a given application, or is it the subset of all
> users that need the functionality but are accessing the application
> with a specific browser (and/or browser version)?
> 
> The expectation (whether valid or not isn't relevant right now) is
> that if all browsers render "standard" HTML or ACID the same way, then
> the developer can in fact give the user the functionality they want
> without worrying about which browser those users choose when accessing
> the application.  This becomes more important in the world of "cloud
> computing" where the same servers need to provide applications to a
> roaming user(s) who may not have a choice of which browser they will
> be using at any given location.
> 
> Looking at it another way, if you develop an application that works
> fine in IE7, Mozilla, Safari, and Firefox, and Microsoft introduces a
> change in IE8 that breaks the application, does that become a case of
> you not adapting to the user, or the user not adapting to the computer
> (to borrow your comment from the other post)?  Who's responsible for
> the problem, the user or the developer?  Did you, as the developer,
> fail to "target ... your desired audience" by not foreseeing the
> incompatible changes that would be introduced in IE8?  Wouldn't it be
> better for you and the end-user if all browsers could render some
> standard HTML in the same way, not just from one browser product to
> another, but across versions of the same browser product?
> 
> www.noesys.com

Anyone who wants my business is going to have to use web pages that my 
browser (Firefox) can display!