=> Subject: Re: [NF] Another app broken by IE7 => => OK, that's 5. I doubt there's 436,000 distinct applications => that it busted either! I still think, given the installed => userbase of IE, that it has been pretty painless. => -- => => Alan Bourke
Did anyone mention AOL Mail? Having spent many years on the OS-producing side of the fence, let me point out that it is not fair to categorically blame every failure on IE7. If IE6 was working according to spec and the spec has changed, then IE7 is at fault. If IE7 is not working according to its spec, then it is at fault as well. If the app used IE6 in a way inconsistent with its spec and that situation is not allowed in IE7, then the app is at fault. I am not aware of any analysis that goes beyond "It's broken!" has been performed to determine the actual culpability in any of these cases. Let's remember that the "little people" who produced IE7 are smart, hard-working people very much like the rest of us. Even though we may like to bash Microsoft (and frequently with justification), it is our colleagues in the trenches who suffer as well. Foxers should know better than most how easily a few bad words from a selfish, uncaring source can create a very unpleasant situation. B+ HALinNY _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
