to use standards with IE. You may have to use a subset, but they are
still standards and everyone with any browser that uses that subset of
standards (99% of the browsers) will work with the site, as opposed to
using the IE-only innovations that may add functionality to the site
but limit the audience to only IE.
-Kevin
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:36:18 -0400, Matthew Small
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd have to disagree. IE is the defacto standard, and an unwillingness to
> 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
>
> _____
>
> 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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