Pat- I pretty much agree across the board about what you say, but a few counterpoints:
1. The problem of supporting the installed base is fairly simple-- the skin concept allows for a fully pimped out AJAXed skin to sit alongside Default and other classically driven web skins. You default everyone to the lowest common denominator and make other options available to those that want them. 2. IE is an ornery S.O.B., to be sure. Even IE7 doesn't address the standards problems IE has (I'm a bit of a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist on this one...I think MS screws up standard support entirely on purpose). However, CSS in my experience is the hard thing to deal with in programming for IE, not javascript. Third party javascript libraries like Prototype (which is in the slimserver codebase) get around most of the hairy IE javascript support issues. cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32104 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
