> > Maybe so, but IE is increasingly supporting web standards. Therefore, > if your site was following web standards and working on Firefox, you > could, with zero effort, also support IE updates.
And there you are absolutely right. My site is about 8 years old. It was written to support a pretty much standard-less IE user community. However, even my own site doesn't work well in IE8 unless I set compatibility mode. So an update is coming. But I've known that for over a year. I'm just waiting to find a suitable evening to sit down and develop a new one. > > This doesn't make sense, though. You can only predict it's behavior > because it's behaving incorrectly the same way. If you wrote it to the > web standards, it would always behave predictably, even in conforming > browsers. Again, quite right. But there's a cost ratio to be considered. Unless it is economically worth the effort, it's not worth doing. I develop other sites that are just as you suggest. And while doing them, I keep them open in both IE and FF and switch between them very freuently to make sure changes render the same way on both. My site isn't one of them and it's something that I would not devote a lot of time (which for me is money) until there was a clear need to do so. IE8 is that clear need, so again, I know a new site is on the horizon. > I > think it's important to note that if we ignore the existence of IE6, > most of the tricks people have had to use for IE bugs no longer apply, > so why ignore the standards? Again, I don't. But the site everyone is talking about NOW was done before FF even existed. I've put a new face on it from time to time (new graphics, etc), but it's the same site I've been running since the late 90's. Until IE8, there was no economic justification for doing anything to it. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to firebug@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to firebug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
