> You just have to weigh up time vs. customer base.  If you're selling
> something on the web, how many customers will have problems with the
> site... and of them, which would be unlikely to be able to fire up
> another browser to try again?...
> 
> The point is that I could write a basic site in a few hours, but could
> spend another day trying to get it to work in Opera, NeoPlanet,
> Netscape, Konqueror, etc... Is it really worth it (other than from a
> self-satisfaction point of view)?
> 

If a web designer is commissioned to design an e-commerce site then they
must ensure it will work on all browsers.  Anything less is cheating the
client.  A retail business gets on-line to provide an additional sales
channel and they expect that anyone on the web will be able to visit
it.  They usually don't understand the technical difficulties of browser
incompatibilities and don't want to except to hear a justification for
the sky-high price of the web designer ;)
An analogy is the bricks-and-mortar store -- you want anybody to be able
to enter your shop and purchase items.  You don't want to limit it to
people who only wear Microsoft brand shoes no matter if 90% of the
population wear them.  That extra 10% might mean the difference between
profit or failure.

Kerry.

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