Well I use to work for a major player and they had a staff of three people
that did nothing but test the software on different version of Netscape and
IE. They reported bugs and conflicts to the development team and we had to
resolve them. This was a great resource.
Not all players in the market can afford this kind of debugging, but if they
want to reach the maximum number of people they will do it to some level.
Larrie
>
>
> 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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