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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 14-01-2010 13:51, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article<paul.nospam-8C8DF6.19241614012010 at pbook.sture.ch>,
> 	Paul Sture<paul.nospam at sture.ch>  writes:
>> In article<7r8j8hF3qnU3 at mid.individual.net>,
>>   billg999 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.
>>
>> But if everyone waited for the last in the race to catch up, we'd never
>> make any progress.
>
> It's all about busioness.  If the academics want to keep pushing the
> envelope, that's fine.  After all, that is their business and how they
> attract customers (read students).  But if your business is selling
> something other than fancy web pages with limited readership then you
> need to concentrate on what makes you profitable.  That almost never
> is pushing the Web envelope.

Have you looked at the world the last few years?

The companies that are pushing the web envelope are doing
pretty good business wise.

Arne