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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <6uOdnTMFN825sdLWnZ2dnUVZ_sydnZ2d at giganews.com>,
	"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> 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!

Eexactly!!!!

bill
 

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