> I've been "around" since 1952, so yeah, I was there for the browser wars. > It wasn't a luxury to make the sites work for all browsers, it was a > necessity, and should have been part of the budget for every project, > although I know it wasn't.
Well, no, it clearly wasn't a necessity, as we can see from the fact that it wasn't always done, and it's only in retrospect that we can say "everything should work in all browsers", now that we have a pretty high level of common functionality across modern browsers. When IE 6 came out, there were a bunch of things that you could only do in IE 6. If you wanted to do those things, you wrote browser-specific code. Lots of internal corporate web apps relied on specific functionality delivered through ActiveX, for example. It's very easy to criticize decisions made in the past with information we have in the here-and-now. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348775 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
