Hi,
I'm interested in your opinion concerning how far you would consider it
necessary to code for cross-browser compatibility these days, especially for
public-facing Internet sites...
According to a recent survey
( http://www.weboptimiser.com/search_e.../3061148.html),
Internet Explorer has just under 95% of the browser marketplace. Do you
think it's worth the additional aggravation of making things work in
Netscape, Firefox, AOL, Opera etc just to cater for this additional 5%? It's
the "poke-for-pound" argument...
Very interested to hear what you think...
Mark 17  1792 
Mark,
I came across this issue just last week when developing a public facing
site. The project manager on the project was a Mac user, and the site looked
horrible on his Mac. He bitched and moaned about it until no end. But like
you said, I don't think it's worth the effort to spend a crazy amount of
time trying to make the site cross-browser compatible.
I don't use any fancy stuff on the HTML side of my sites, it's all CSS. On
particularly annoying thing I came across was this. Consider this snippet
<tr class="somecssc lass">
<td><td>
</tr>
In IE, the <td> automatically inherits the style from the <tr>
However, Opera, for example wanted the class applied to every <td> in the
<tr>.
In my opinion, that ridiculous.
Small annoyances like this get under my skin! It's not like I'm using
GridLayout and expecting it to work flawlessly on every browser!
"Mark Rae" <ma**@mark-N-O-S-P-A-M-rae.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ev******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl... Hi,
I'm interested in your opinion concerning how far you would consider it
necessary to code for cross-browser compatibility these days, especially
for public-facing Internet sites...
According to a recent survey
(http://www.weboptimiser.com/search_e.../3061148.html),
Internet Explorer has just under 95% of the browser marketplace. Do you
think it's worth the additional aggravation of making things work in
Netscape, Firefox, AOL, Opera etc just to cater for this additional 5%?
It's the "poke-for-pound" argument...
Very interested to hear what you think...
Mark
5% of the hundreds of millions Internet users is still a lot of users! It
completely depends on if you are building for the Internet or an intranet.
If it is the Internet, the cross-browser support is still considered a must
by any pro.
"Mark Rae" <ma**@mark-N-O-S-P-A-M-rae.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ev******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl... Hi,
I'm interested in your opinion concerning how far you would consider it
necessary to code for cross-browser compatibility these days, especially
for
public-facing Internet sites...
According to a recent survey
(http://www.weboptimiser.com/search_e.../3061148.html),
Internet Explorer has just under 95% of the browser marketplace. Do you
think it's worth the additional aggravation of making things work in
Netscape, Firefox, AOL, Opera etc just to cater for this additional 5%?
It's
the "poke-for-pound" argument...
Very interested to hear what you think...
Mark
I do not think it is economically viable and stick with the devil I know.
I believe the court cases have been the reason that IE development
has become stagnant. Now that the court cases appear to be resolved
Microsoft will pull a rabbit out of the hat which we all know has been
long overdue.
--
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Architectural & e-Business Consulting -- Software Development
NET cs*********@REM OVETHISTEXTmetr omilwaukee.com
URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/
"Mark Rae" <ma**@mark-N-O-S-P-A-M-rae.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ev******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl... Hi,
I'm interested in your opinion concerning how far you would consider it
necessary to code for cross-browser compatibility these days, especially
for public-facing Internet sites...
According to a recent survey
(http://www.weboptimiser.com/search_e.../3061148.html),
Internet Explorer has just under 95% of the browser marketplace. Do you
think it's worth the additional aggravation of making things work in
Netscape, Firefox, AOL, Opera etc just to cater for this additional 5%?
It's the "poke-for-pound" argument...
Very interested to hear what you think...
Mark
"George Durzi" <gd****@hotmail .com> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP11.phx.gbl. .. Small annoyances like this get under my skin! It's not like I'm using
GridLayout and expecting it to work flawlessly on every browser!
LOL!
For a while now, I've been costing cross-browser compatibility as a separate
item when preparing a quote for a new piece of work.
The basic cost is IE5.5 and above for Windows any additional browser /
hardware platform combination incurs an additional 20% cost.
Not a single client has ever chosen the cross-browser option(s)...
That's why a lot of people end up going with Flash or something like that
instead of dealing with cross browser development.
"Scott M." <s-***@nospam.nosp am> wrote in message
news:uh******** *****@tk2msftng p13.phx.gbl... 5% of the hundreds of millions Internet users is still a lot of users! It
completely depends on if you are building for the Internet or an intranet.
If it is the Internet, the cross-browser support is still considered a
must by any pro.
"Mark Rae" <ma**@mark-N-O-S-P-A-M-rae.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ev******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl... Hi,
I'm interested in your opinion concerning how far you would consider it
necessary to code for cross-browser compatibility these days, especially
for
public-facing Internet sites...
According to a recent survey
(http://www.weboptimiser.com/search_e.../3061148.html),
Internet Explorer has just under 95% of the browser marketplace. Do you
think it's worth the additional aggravation of making things work in
Netscape, Firefox, AOL, Opera etc just to cater for this additional 5%?
It's
the "poke-for-pound" argument...
Very interested to hear what you think...
Mark
"Scott M." <s-***@nospam.nosp am> wrote in message
news:uh******** *****@tk2msftng p13.phx.gbl... 5% of the hundreds of millions Internet users is still a lot of users! It
completely depends on if you are building for the Internet or an intranet.
If it is the Internet, the cross-browser support is still considered a
must by any pro.
If you're writing a desktop application, do you also write a Mac version,
UNIX version, OS/2 version...?
They would be completely separate versions most likely developed using
different tools.
"Mark Rae" <ma**@mark-N-O-S-P-A-M-rae.co.uk> wrote in message
news:eY******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl... "Scott M." <s-***@nospam.nosp am> wrote in message
news:uh******** *****@tk2msftng p13.phx.gbl...
5% of the hundreds of millions Internet users is still a lot of users!
It completely depends on if you are building for the Internet or an
intranet. If it is the Internet, the cross-browser support is still considered a
must by any pro.
If you're writing a desktop application, do you also write a Mac version,
UNIX version, OS/2 version...?
Step one is to identify the target audience for the application.
If the target is the Internet, then cross-browser compatibility is a must.
If the target is an intranet, then the corporate browser standard is
targeted.
If it is a desktop application (as you ask about) then we need to determine
which OS we're targeting.
"Mark Rae" <ma**@mark-N-O-S-P-A-M-rae.co.uk> wrote in message
news:eY******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl... "Scott M." <s-***@nospam.nosp am> wrote in message
news:uh******** *****@tk2msftng p13.phx.gbl...
5% of the hundreds of millions Internet users is still a lot of users!
It
completely depends on if you are building for the Internet or an
intranet.
If it is the Internet, the cross-browser support is still considered a
must by any pro.
If you're writing a desktop application, do you also write a Mac version,
UNIX version, OS/2 version...?
"Scott M." <s-***@nospam.nosp am> wrote in message
news:eM******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl... If the target is the Internet, then cross-browser compatibility is a must.
Why? There's no law that says this - if a car manufacturer produces a car
which runs on petrol, they don't *have* to produce a diesel version...
If it is a desktop application (as you ask about) then we need to
determine which OS we're targeting.
Why aren't you targeting them all, in the same way that you're targeting all
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