work with what the marketplace demands is a recipe for disaster, business
wise. You stop making sure that IE can see it and when you produce pages
that IE doesn't work with, it only affects your business, not the millions
of IE users, and MS certainly does not care that you're not writing pages
that supports IE.
- Matt Small
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From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 2:31 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: IE Browser
G wrote:
> But if 90+ percent of your users are going to be using IE...doesn't it
> behoove you to design your site to work at its optimum in that browser,
> whatever its' restrictions?
No. (After looking "behoove" up in a dictionary.)
On every layer of the OSI model one simple implicit contract is what built
the internet: you stick to the standard, I stick to the standard and then we
can communicate.
Nobody makes a RJ45 jacket that is so different that standard RJ45 plugs
won't fit in. Nobody implements an ethernet stack that is so different that
it won't recognize the linkbeat of another device. Nobody implements an IP
stack that is so different that it won't route to standard devices on the
rest of the internet. Nobody implements a TCP stack that is so different
that you can't connect to standard sockets. Nobody implements a HTTP stack
that is so different that you can't GET a page.
Internet is a mutual contract. As a webmaster I do my part, and I am not
going to make amends if a visitor is unwilling to do his part.
Jochem
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