Perry wrote: Andrew, I don't see how this event improves our lot as web designers. The new and improved, standards compliant Netscape / Mozilla has been a predictable browser to design for. Our bane continues to be the zombie like Netscape 4x - dead and reeking but still walking the earth. And while we're still stabbing at the living dead, here comes Safari for mac. It looks like a browser but its creator didn't read the whole manual before animating the creature. The long dark night is not over even yet.
Perry Gerenday </snip> If anything, you maybe understating the case, Perry. It's not just NN4x that's the problem it's that most design will now be done even more exclusively for IE6 -- a browser that will undergo no further development and not be replaced for probably at least 2-3 years. And when it is replaced, you have to buy a whole new OS to get it. How deadening is that hand for true standards based design? Wysiwyg it for IE 6 and shove it out the door. How far will new web technologies get if they aren't tailored to the broken model of IE6? I don't think blocking popups will gain Firebird and Opera that much market share. How do you get end users to try a new browser when all they see all day is IE? What good is a standards compliant page in a proprietary web? Unless the large institutional users of NN4x convert to Opera or Firebird how will anyone hear about alternatives to IE? I don't think we've even reached the full dark of night. drew ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
