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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