Oh, I agree Russ, but you were making absolutist statements, not using common sense. Common sense says: write to standards, tweak as required for individual customer needs, plan periodic refreshes to better take advantage of improving/changing technology.
Cheers, Judah On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Russ Michaels <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:348797 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
