Just because something is optimized for IE doesn't mean it can't be
tweaked to work cross browser. I used online banking as an illustration
of a major business application that is compatible with multiple
browsers. Hence, my original speculation about whether its inertia,
laziness, or kissing up to Microsoft.
I don't care to be forced to use IE as I did moments ago to upgrade
TweakDeck because of Adobe's erroneous error message about updating
Flash in Firefox when I have the latest patch. I personally think that
Adobe is in bed with Microsoft and that's the reason I'm forced to use
IE in that situation. There is a definite bias for IE and I don't
believe it's because of the difficulty in supporting Firefox and Opera.
Greg Sevart wrote:
What compatibility issues? We're talking about HTML code for rendering
web pages which any browser is capable of.
That is an extraordinarily simple minded view of what's actually involved.
There are literally thousands--if not tens of thousands--of internally
developed web-based applications that are critical LOB apps that
organizations use every day. I promise you, a large number of those will
simply not work properly in a non-IE browser.
Again, your home-network experience is pretty much irrelevant when it comes
to these sorts of projects in any sizable organization.
