you have to use a bit of common sense here, obviously every app in the world was not written by you and does not work the same as yours, if they did then this thread would not exist nor would the previous comments.
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not at all true, Russ. > > Here's a website that I wrote in 1994 that is archived (archive.org > only has it back through 1996) that works just fine in Chrome 16, IE 9 > and FireFox 8 on a Windows 7 box. > > http://web.archive.org/web/19961018091409/http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides.html > > None of those browsers even existed when I started that in 94. I was > targeting HTML specs and, lo and behold, still works fine 15+ years > later on browsers I could not have imagined at the time. > > Judah > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Russ Michaels <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> not exactly true. >> If you have a 5 year old app that was written for the browsers of the >> time, it wont matter whether it was written for just 1 browser or for >> all browsers, it will still be out of date now and will still need >> updating for the latest browsers. >> If however it was only written to work for say IE then it only needs >> to be fixed for IE, much less work/time and cost. >> Making an app cross browser does not magically make it future proof. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:348796 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
