> On 4 May 2019, at 16:39, Leslie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Jim, I'm not sure if you've worked doing web development, but I agree
> with Nick that you can get a lot of performance data from these
> services (not just tracking or marketing) which is incredibly useful.
AFAICT nobody’s disputing that Leslie. I simply question that gathering and
analysing such data is worthwhile or appropriate for RIPE. After all we aren’t
in the marketing business or running a social networking site (same thing
really).
> People visit websites with all sorts of combinations of browsers,
> OS'es, and extensions -- and no matter how good of a test system you
> have, you'll never be able to accurately predict each combination and
> weird side effects will happen.
All the more reason to avoid needless cruft that gets in the way of
interoperability. Too many web designers seem to ignore this. It
shouldn’t/needn’t be necessary to crunch through a raft of web analytics to
learn that either. As my gran used to say, you don’t need to jump into the
Clyde to find out if you’re going to get wet.
