Dave Watts wrote: >>>> Maybe he doesn't have IE (sensible chap). >>> Snobbery 1, common sense 0. >>> >>> If the original poster is a web developer, he should >>> certainly have a copy of the same web browser that the >>> vast majority of his users will have! >> Which is not always IE. For instance, I am currently >> developing am application that will run on a BSD-only >> intranet. That means the dominant browsers will be the Gecko >> family, but I will have to make sure it works in Safari and >> Lynx too. > > You know, Jochem, I love you to death - you're my all-time favorite cf-talk > poster. But are you saying that you don't ever work on public applications, > or IE-heavy intranets?
That's what I work on most of the time. (And a significant part of that work has to do with transforming them to open standards and user-agent independence.) > Would you agree with Tom's statement that it would > generally be sensible for a web developer not to have access to IE on > Windows? Having access to and having are not the same thing. Unless you count mobile IE, I don't have IE: I don't have any use for a browser that doesn't run on any of my OS'es (and IE for Unix was discontinued long ago). But if a job requires it, access to IE will be provided for me. I don't bring my own chair and desk to the job, so why should I have to bring IE? Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:241605 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=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
