I agree with pretty much everything Umer has said in this thread. Honestly, at the risk of hurting feelings and being called names and whatnot, the reason a web app that does the things we've talked about in this thread should not be cross-browser compatable is either a lack of skills on the developer's part, lack of time/money on the manager's part, or retarded requirements writers.
When you are experienced at developing apps for all browsers, it becomes harder to develop one for a single browser, than it is for all. There are a few exceptions, mostly dealing with activeX (though FF has a plugin for that), html text areas (though fckeditor 2 will be released soon), and VBScripting (does anyone actually use that?). These are very minor. If you can't develop the app talked about in this thread to be cross-browser compatable, it's my theory that you're just inexperienced at cross-browser development. -nathan strutz Umer Farooq wrote: >>Bug #1: >> >>If I create a simple page to open a window, and close the parent Firefox >>behaves very bad, that's all I need to say.... Not browser specific >>code!! >> > > > Not able to produce the problem.. likly something wrong with the > JavaScript event listner. again.. not sure as to how you are closing > the window.. programmatically or trying to figure out if user closed the > window.. > > > >>Bug#2: >> >>The problem is with the URL in the style attribute, the image does not >>appear at all. > > > The width of the background image.. in ur code is set to 1PX.. > > >>Bug #3: >>We have and Iframe that contains 2 more Iframes, and will not display in >>Firefox, this is also not IE specific code!! > > > Again.. not able to reproduce the problem.. I created.. three level deep > iframes.. > > >>And as far as IE specific code goes, we are using a lot of it to deliver >>content management and Business Logic that we can not deliver in >>Firefox, Opera or even Netscape. > > > With no alternative to IE for a long time.. I understand this.. and if > you have Windows specific code.. nothing much can be done about it.. as > 90% of the users are still on IE/Win.. and if you can add the > functionality to place your app higher up then the others.. might as > well do it.. but with FireFox going at the pace it is.. I wouldn't wana > be left without support for it.. > > >>If you would like me to send you the images for you to look at then I am >>more than happy to send an HTML email for you to see the problems at >>hand. > > > Sure.. email address below.. > > >>But the point is that if our application can't run in anything else than >>a browser then we are creating more usability for MS products, that's >>the point I was trying to make. > > > > Yes.. for a long time to come IE will still rule the web.. But as > developers we can stop the push to MS products by adding cross > compatibility.. and with FireFox, it just makes the whole thing lot > easier.. to implement.. sell to higher up.. etc.. etc.. For me I'm just > glad I don't have to do compatibility test with NN4.7 and NN6.0.. :-) > > Regards, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:186501 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
