On Wednesday, June 9, 2004, at 01:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we are going to make sites that only work in certain browsers why not just
code to IE's standards and not bother with the obscure browsers like firefox
and opera. That way we don't need standards at all! I can have my marquee
tag back and my ActiveX controls - Ill be able to do all kinds of great things.
After all nearly everyone uses IE...
Seriously though, If you are going to take this hardline attitude by
purposefully excluding users of certain browsers then you may as well do what I
was saying above. Don't loose site of the objective - with standards we are
trying to let more browsers work with our sites not less. Don't get too bitter
about IE people it's not good for your health.
No, no - I'm not suggesting for a second we should *only* develop for IE, or any other certain browsers! Just the opposite - I make a point of delivering my clients' message to the maximum number of visitors. And I'm not bitter; just realistic. That's why I say 'IE is here to stay'. Thanks to the many gurus around, we have a whole menu of hacks available so we *can* deliver Standards-driven sites to non-compliant browsers.
I just think we have to keep an eye on the past, even as we move forward. Someone said in a recent post on another thread, 'IE/Mac is no longer being developed, so it's a dead duck.' Huh? Did all the IE/Mac users just stop, there and then, when that news was announced? No - and that's why I'll keep hacking for, and testing in, the widest possible range of browsers I can. I owe it to my clients.
100% compliant browsers. Write once, publish anywhere. It's the dream of Standards, right? I'm all for it; I'll do my bit, and more. But it's not the real world - not yet.
Nick ___________________________ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/
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