Hi there,
Nick Rout wrote:
dev: we tend to develop for internet explorer because its easier for us that way, we have the tools for it, the majority of customers use it, and that makes it cheaper all round for you because we understand it and do it all the time.
cust: sounds good to me, now will it look good?
six months later
cust: our customers are complaining they can't use the website because they use obscure browsers
dev: ah yes i have it here in the contract that you wanted us to develop it for IE, now if you want more you pay more.
That of course would be a cop-out. Netscape 7.x and Moz share a very similar DOM (document object model) to IE 6.0. That means most JavaScript coded in accordance with JavaScript 1.5 official guidelines will render/work pretty much the same on all those browser versions.
It is my belief that the only sites that wantonly exclude non-M$ browsers actually would have to contain some heinously specific code to prevent a modern version of Moz or Netscape or Opera from correctly rendering or viewing their page...
-- Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch, New Zealand. Canterbury Horse Taxis. http://www.horsetaxis.co.nz/
