There is something to be said for least common denominator programing.
Of course it is hard to sell the bells and whistles if you do it that way.
graywolf
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David Mann wrote:
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)
