At 04:06 PM 4/11/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear Janet (yes, that's a condescending 'Dear')...I've been married to the
>same woman for 27 years in two more days and I've come to realise that I
>can't win arguments with the opposite sex once they've mad up their minds.
Maybe there's a reason for that.
>My point was that it didn't work with 20,000,00 browsers and my unsaid point
>was that for a major release they might have done a bit better at beta
>testing.
You mean like any other software? All software has problems with the first
release. I would like you to show me software that was released with no
bugs because that would be a world record. Besides which, you are assuming
that all AOL users use the browser. I know several people who use AOL for
email alone and have a separate ISP for other web activities. AOL has
problems because it has so many users and their computers can't keep up.
That is why the service is so crippled. Oh, and by the way, a new AOL
browser was released a couple of months back. Maybe the code worked on the
old browser. Basically, you are getting overly angry about a situation that
is perfectly natural and understandable.
>In the 'old' days if you did beta tests you were expected to test as
>completely as you could and in exchange for that, the company would issue
>you one of the first releases for free. The last I looked at Allaire's
>policy on this (and I might be wrong...if I remember, I was wrong once)
I've counted more times than that, today alone.
> was
>that the beta was open to it's 'Subcribing customers' (which doesn't count
>as snot as they already have a year's worth of software coming to them) and
>that in the later stages they release it to the public at large, of course,
>with no free issuances.
>
>I'm still doing beta testing for some of the companies that supply
>components for Visual Basic and when one of these components hits the market
>you can be darn sure that they'll work with nearly every VB compiler out
>there ;) That's the difference between being a popular company and and
>excellent company.
Oh really? Have you ever tried compiling C in multiple compilers? I dare you.
Besides which, CFServer is sort of like a compiler, so by your theory, you
should be able to use CFML with CFServer and lo and behold... you have your
wish. However, making things cross-browser compliant is a different story.
There is a standard for VisualBasic and for your code to compile properly
in any compiler that compiler (and your code) has to follow the standards.
Otherwise, its all accommodating this little quirk and that little quirk.
There is a standard for browsers and none of the browsers use it. AOL's
browser is amazingly far from the standard and thus, the code won't work on
it. So your example supports my theory and not your own. AOL should use the
standards for browsers instead of blatantly ignoring them. Then this would
never have been an issue.
Man. You really are bitter today, aren't you? I think it's about Beer:30 in
your time-zone.
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