On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Rick Faircloth wrote: > It's just too much work to cater to every minority group in the > virtual > universe.
In one sentence you sum up the main problem with web development today: because people are unwilling to really look into how the standards work and to learn to work with them, users of browsers other than IE get the shaft on many, many major websites. If developers, such as yourself, and their developers were to investigate the standards and how browsers treat them, and maybe use a JS framework like JQuery or Prototype, you'd see that by following close to the standards you can develop sites that work perfectly for over 99% of your audience, rather than in your ignorance (definition: lack of knowledge) believe it is "too much work". For several years I've worked towards compatibility with Firefox and Safari, then patched the code to work around IE's problems, and it has worked great - higher than 99% compatibility with our visitor's websites and ultimately less work for me. Remember that IE is slowly (kick and screaming all the way) becoming *more* standards compliant over time, IE7 proved that Microsoft was beginning to listen and look how many websites had to be changed: most in-the-know developers just had to update their code to not load the JS/CSS hacks for IE7 and their sites worked fine, rather than the torment many went through of having to rewrite entire sites due to shortsightedness. So, for the good of your clients and visitors, and ultimately your own long-term peace of mind, please learn how to take advantage of the published standards. -- Damien McKenna - Web Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Limu Company - http://www.thelimucompany.com/ - 407-548-3800 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:275437 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
