On Mar 29, 2006, at 7:44 AM, Bob W wrote:
Me: Without testing we can't know for sure, but I'd say it's
99.999% certain
that it won't work with Netscape.
Marketing person: I have put in "We feel confident that our system
will work
with Netscape"
I just got done with another horror-session of little browser quirks
causing major layout problems.
Netscape is one of those browsers that I don't even look at anymore:
I get enough grief from MSIE and Opera. I'm not particularly
impressed by the CSS standards either: they left out enough to make
things frustrating at times. A lot of really useful HTML stuff is
now deprecated, and the CSS replacements can behave in a totally
different manner which changes depending on which browser "quirk
mode" you activate with the doctype. But changing the doctype to
accommodate one thing will break another (browser-dependent, of
course), requiring more CSS code to work around it. Excuse me while
I put on my straightjacket.
FWIW the marketing staff don't care about the technical stuff, that's
someone else's job and if someone at some other company can do it,
then surely someone in your company can do it. They'll just do
whatever it takes to land the contract and let you take the
responsibility :)
- Dave (pining for the good old days of Lynx)
