Dave, No we have never lost a sale, because the companies we deal with know that they are getting a good deal and know that the application is delivered to their requirements which no other developer is able to do with out creating a client/server application that is not browser based, which costs more than what we deliver.
-----Original Message----- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 7 December 2004 10:39 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SOT: Browser Stats (stirring the pot) > As I LMAO at you, being a developer for HTML applications, > Intranets, Extranets and websites for over 10 years. I can > say that every browser on the market today is NOT capable of > delivering our application to the end user, we use specific > IE only functionality and it works. We will not remove any of > this to run it under Firefox because our application is what > is making us over $200K per application, because we can do > what others can not. > > This forces people to use IE on these intranets, but if the > client wants the application to run then it has to be IE or nothing. > > Now before you Laugh again, think about what you're saying. I > am not saying that IE is the best thing since sliced bread, I > am not saying that I like IE over anything else, I am saying > that IE is the only browser that will run our application at > the moment. Do you think it's possible you've ever lost a sale because of this requirement? If so, would the money lost from that sale have covered the cost of changing your application to work with other browsers? If the answer to both of these is no, then you're ok. If the answer to both is yes, then you're leaving money on the table. Assuming you can correctly answer both of these questions, they're all you need to ask. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - New Atlanta http://www.newatlanta.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:186389 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
