> "Piroumian, Konstantin" wrote:
> >
> > Do you think that supporting only 15%-20% of users is a good way of
> > application development?
>
> Do you think supporting standards is a good way of development? IE's
> market share will drop rapidly, if more people would take a stand for
> HTTP-compliance. And if that happens MS will fix IE and we'll all be
> happy.
Standarts are made to be supported, otherwise they are useless. The reality
is that IE is leading browser and I don't believe that anybody will design
his applications in standart, but less functional or simplified way, only
because that is not a standart way.
>
> If you ignore HTTP and instead support IE's bugs, you are the bad
> application developer, not I :-)
I didn't say that you are a bad developer if you prefer to use standarts or
hate Microsoft, but you can't develope a public application (not for
intranet) and ignore all the people with IE.
I don't like Microsoft either and that's why I don't use IIS or other
Microsoft technologies that I can avoid, but I can't avoid using IE and
developing for IE, because it's impossible now. I think, that the same
situation is everywhere.
According to your advice, we have to tell our users to use Netscape (or so)
if they want to get a PDF document. But often people don't have any browser
other than IE.
Konstantin.
>
> Ulrich
>
> --
> Ulrich Mayring
> DENIC eG, Systementwicklung
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