>> Common sense says: write to standards, Color me stupid but I am not understanding what that means, "Write to standards". I ran across the same thing here on this page.
http://paulirish.com/2011/browser-market-pollution-iex-is-the-new-ie6/ Corporate users should be testing their applications against standards, not browser version numbers. What does that mean, " testing their applications against standards"? Any elucidation, or clarification would be greatly appreciated. Many TIA, G! On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:348799 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
