Pat Farrell;174594 Wrote: > P Floding wrote: > > I'm not familiar with Moose, but I would have thought that today's > > browsers would have enough scriptability etc to allow a pretty slick > > user interface? Perhaps I'm wrong.. I haven't looked into web > > programming for a long time. (It was sort of in it's infancy when I > > last time worried about such things.) > > It depends on how slick you want to be, and how many browsers you want > > to support. All the fancy AJAX stuff is just javascript, there really > is > nothing new other than the name itself, which is rapidly becoming less > > of a meaningful acronym and more of a generic buzzword. > > The problem with all slick browser stuff is that you have an installed > > base. Lots of users use a wide variety of browsers with assorted levels > > of patches. And sadly, the most popular one, MS InternetExplorer is the > > worst at complying with standards or working the same across versions. > > For a company with serious engineering talent, such as Google, it is > not > a big deal to support all of it. But for a small team, paid or > contributed, the combinatorial explosion of browser compatibility is > very expensive. You have to write code that tests for feature > existance, > proper operation, etc. and then you have to Quality Test it against all > > the combinations. IE 5 on Win98 is not IE6 on XP. > > You can do it, it is just a SMOP. > Small matter of programming. > > Sometimes small is in the mind of the marketing product manager. > > > -- > Pat > http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
Interesting stuff. I really hope that Logitech will pump more money into SlimServer development and hire a crack team of programmers. -- Nostromo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nostromo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6322 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32104 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
