On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Philip Taylor <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Chris Rockwell wrote: > >> If my boss' wife (or one of my freelance clients husbands) views one of >> our sites on a 2005 laptop and shows him what it looks like in IE7 I >> don't think "You'll have to file a bug report with Microsoft to get that >> fixed" is going to fly. > > But that is exactly the opposite scenario to the one I was discussing, > Chris. You are arguing "it may be necessary to hack in order to > support legacy browsers"; I am arguing "it should not be necessary to > hack, nor should we be prepared to hack, to support the leading-edge > hardware (and related firmware) that is being forcefully marketed > today". > > Philip Taylor
We're sliding OT for the list quickly, but I'll add that my biggest pain point is having clients ask that I support IE7. Leading-edge devices (including desktop browsers) are beginning to support things that barely have vendor prefixed support. I'm much more OK with that than the former. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Front-End Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/