I know there are exceptions to every rule... and I have been in your shoes (supporting users on platforms that are no longer supported) and its a tough walk.
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:13 AM, matt.asbury <matt.asb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I appreciate your standpoint Phil but as web developers we must > support our users needs. Unfortunately our biggest customers are > public sector workers with the major browser in their environment > being IE6. Online figures tell half a story > > On Nov 17, 2:07 pm, Phil Petree <phil.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There comes a time in every products life cycle when you must choose > which > > core products (e.g. browsers etc.) and platforms you will support. > > > > In the case of ie6, with less than 5% of all page views (and rapidly > > declining), it is now a footnote so why support it at all? > > > > stats here:http://mashable.com/2010/06/01/ie6-below-5-percent/ > > > > This be-all-to-all strategy simply doesn't work. You can't possibly > support > > all versions of all browsers without causing a horrible and unpredictable > > experience for users. > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Bertilo Wennergren <berti...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:01, petrob <petrob...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > > Why don't you put the evaluation part in a separate function within > > > > the scope of handleVehiclesClick and call it with some delay (100ms) > > > > to decide what and how many option elements to select? > > > > > That is of course a common solution to such problems, and I use it > > > myself a lot, but I always have a nagging worry in the back of my > > > head: Is that really a clean and safe method? I pick a delay time, > > > e.g. 100ms, out of thin air and then test if it works ... for me, in > > > my browsers, in my computer, today, here. But will that be so for > > > every user everywhere? Perhaps those 100ms will not be enough for > > > someone using an old computer with MSIE6, or on a computer with lots > > > of malware that sucks all the resources, or for someone who is > > > compiling the Linux kernel while browsing, or... So maybe 500ms, or > > > 1000ms, or... How do we test? How do we make sure? > > > > > There must be a better way. Or not? > > > > > Nothing to do with Prototype or scriptaculous, I know, but still... > > > > > -- > > > Bertilo Wennergren > > > berti...@gmail.comhttp://bertilow.com > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > > > prototype-scriptacul...@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<prototype-scriptaculous%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com><prototype-scriptaculou > s%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com <s%252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. > To post to this group, send email to > prototype-scriptacul...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<prototype-scriptaculous%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptacul...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
