On Friday 02 Jan 2009 6:32:12 pm Sankara Rameswaran wrote: > >> If our banks still insist that we use IE6 then that only shows how > >> ancient they are. > > It can't be simplified so much. The issue is more complicated. Being a web > developer I can tell you with confidence that IE6 is still the most widely > used browser (partly due to piracy and hence the inability to upgrade to > IE7 and partly because users are still naive when it comes to adopting > cutting edge technology). We do take the pain of making sure our website > works across all browser. We are able to do that because we use appropriate > libraries that take the pain out. But it's still a very costly affair.
do you mean the libraries are costly? or that it is costly in terms of man hours to do this? AFAIK most opensource libraries have the appropriate tweaks to work with IE - and they come free. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
