Hi Dilwyn,
Next point of course is that (as Norman suggested) should we go the
extra mile to make sure that the body of IE users get web pages that
will display as intended on IE or just take the viewpoint that "This
website doesn't display correctly on Internet Exploder. Tough. Try
another browser."
Remember the days of IE5 when banks and some online shops refused point
blank to allow you to shop unless you used IE? The boot is on the other
foot now! ;-)
What goes around, comes around - be nice to people on the way up
because you will meet them again on the way down!
Of course, it's the age-old question of "how far do you take
compatibility"?
Follow the example set by Microsoft then. I have to use Windows 2000 at
work. I cannot install the latest version of Oracle on that platform
because M$ have changed a DLL entry point named "GetUserHomeDirectory"
(or something similar) to "GetUserHomeDirectoryA" and the compilers used
now generate this latter version rather than the former. This breaks
Windows 2000. "003, XP, 2008, Vista and Windows 7 work fine, just not 2000.
So, Microsoft don't care much for backward compatibility.
... Marcel went to great lengths to ensure some compatibility with older
software not written to modern standards. How far can people be
reasonably expected to go to make websites and software work on all
systems past and present?
Marcel did indeed go to great lengths and I think I once read that
Digital Precision went to great lengths *not* to get Turbo to fix bugs
in the QL because some old programs that could be compiled used those
bugs to work!
I hope, I really really do.
I hope it all works out for Quanta too.
Cheers,
Norman.
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Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd
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