Re: [WSG] Make em' pay for IE

[Mordechai Peller]

Mark Harwood <WebMail> wrote:
Im sorry but you never ever suggest to a client that the site will not work in
IE, 9 time out of 10 a client will only know about IE. If your suggesting
standards you should know what and what not to do to make a standard site work
accross all browsers.
 

I said the site should me 100% functional in IE; doing otherwise, in 
most cases, is foolish. I am suggesting additional, "unneeded" 
functionality.

I would never ever suggest a site will take longer to do due to getting it to
work in IE,
In other words, you'll lie to your client because you think they're too 
stupid to understand that dealing with the problems in IE is one of the 
costs of doing business and no less real than paying taxes and the 
electric company.

if you have to do that state that there will be a extra "Testing
Period" in which you will be working over multiple platforms and browsers to
check all features are compatible.
 

Most clients will understand if you tell them that anyone who would give 
them the same quality site will also build compliant first and then 
patch; the only difference is that you respect them enough to let them 
know about it.
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