Philosophically, this is all wondrous. But unfortunately we live in a
dynamic world and provide a service function to our "clients".
There are two major interactive arenas; business to business and business to
consumer. B2B is far more robust a stage then B2C since companies actually
using 4 year old browsers are rare. This is the land of Javabeans, J2EE and
the forthcoming train from M$ called .NET.
But, B2C is dependant on the installed, statistically provable base of
"potential opportunity" (installed base). Try selling your story to this
crowd and you will learn the dietary disadvantages of a Top Ramain based
diet (cheap water soluble food source used by start-up companies that can't
afford conventional groceries). Every door is a potential sell, a client...
Companies only want one thing; the broadest possible consumer reach
irregardless of platform and browser. Even squeezing them into a 4+ only
box as been a "recent" yet taxing sales job.
But, worn soles on well traveled shoes are the best teacher. Good luck
Siddhartha!
Ray
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Sutter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 12:47 PM
Subject: [Dynapi-Dev] not so sure about this anymore
> All,
>
> I have a somewhat philosophical question about this project. I got the
source, started working with it, threw my hat into the ring as a Mac guy and
now I'm having second thoughts about the necessity of this project at all.
I've been spending a lot of time working with pure CSS/DOM in Mozilla/NS6,
IE5 and Opera 5 and have been reading some articles on A List Apart
(www.alistapart.com) about the Web Standards Project's new browser upgrade
initiative and I've decided something. I am no longer going to encourage
the use of old buggy browsers (most of which are 3-4 years old). From now
on, my sites are only compatible with CSS/DOM capable browsers. If you
ain't got one, upgrade. I think it's about time. This cross-browser
compatibility stuff is holding back the web and I don't see the reason for
it anymore. Suddenly, DynAPI seems like a waste of time for me. A band-aid
on a limb that is so damaged it should just be amputated. How will this
project remain vital in the long run? What will it offer besides bugwards
compatibility?
>
> Ryan
>
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