Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Here is my take for a structured argument:
The argument usually presented in regard for making sub-standart sites that only work for a specific browseris that statistics show that the % of users using this product is so big that the economical incentive to make a standart based site that will work with all standart supporting browser is so low.
This argument is false because it overlooks the the profile of customers which use these "other" browsers:
These people are sophisticated customers. They are often high tech workers and other high paid white collar proffesionals or students that would be such customers in the future.
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Sorry Gilad, but it seems like you're way out of your depth (no offense, so am I) here:
such an argument as you wish to make must be based on market data in order to
make an impact on decision makers.
You say that this "early adopt, high tech" segment has high financial activity indices.
Regardless of wether this looks justified to me (not completely), the important numbers are
the income and spending expectancies; these you must _know_ in order to make a convincing
argument, and not a cathedral-bazaar-like manifesto (no disrespect there either, just that
it won't convince managers).
I believe that the argument for standard-compliance, backed up by papers regarding
its ease of maintainance and its long-time savings, still looks more convincing.
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