On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 08:40, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Monday 13 October 2003 11:24 am, Jack Coates wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 06:17, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > This really depends on what the web site or application is doing. If you > > > code for Opera, then you can be 98% sure that it will work with other > > > browsers because Opera only supports W3 Consortium standards which are > > > industry standards. Now, you may not be able to use that neato-cool > > > proprietary technology to do your work which might mean that the > > > developers have to put more effort into their coding, but you will be > > > fairly certain of compatibility. > > > > you make the fatal assumption that IE supports the standard. It doesn't. > > Standard code works on IE if it's really really simple, but frequently > > breaks in ugly ways. > > > > Transparent PNGs. > > PNGs at all (color is off). > > Advanced CSS features, like flow. > > Many advanced Javascript form functions. > > W3C is constantly publishing new standards and it often takes time to > implement those in new products. Until I become aware of any software > developer purposefully deviating from a published standard, I do not plan to > deal with it. Not every technology currently available works with IE, nor > Netscape, nor Opera or any other particular browser. I don't think that IE > is particularly different in this regard than any other browser. If you want > maximum interoperability, you have to code for the lowest common denominator. > So, CSS1, not CSS2 features unless you know that they are all supported, etc.
Also you need to ask yourself. Am I doing this because it improves the customer experience?, Makes me look cool?, or gives me a new line on my resume? How often it seems to me to be the second or third reason. Funny too, how many corporate pages I run into that look like geocities rejects, or are so difficult to find things on it isn't funny. If you want a great example of WTF go to jameco.com, and check out their way for "finding" the right powersupply...... James
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