Re: [NTLK] Re - properly designed site

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_home.com)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 21:17:59 EST


somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 1/28/02 7:42 PM, the entity known
as Frank Gruendel transmitted the following from Frank_Gruendel_at_t-online.de:

>> If a site is properly designed to consider all types of browsers...
>
> One of the best jokes I've heard lately. Please translate the above
> sentence to
>
> If a webmaster has enough money to pay a couple of people working full-time
> for him, trying out whatever he comes up with with a myriad of Internet
> Explorer
> versions, a myriad of Netscape versions, a fair amount of Opera versions and
> whatever other browsers are out there. All this on at least three platforms.
> But this is theory. I can't imagine anybody who would do this kind of work
> for more than a week without killing either himself or the people
> responsible for
> Internet Explorer 4.7 on the Mac. Of course, only after dropping a bomb on
> Netscape headquarters.
>

Ummm... I think the *intersection* of what all current (and fairly recent)
browser versions support is probably enough to do most all that anyone would
need to do on a website, so there's no reason to have to special case code
for a bazillion browsers. Personally, I find it irritating to have to keep
upgrading my browser because of folks out there that just have to implement
the latest, greatest bell/whistle, regardless of whether it gags every other
browser out there.

- Eric.

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Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)

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