On Monday 13 November 2006 09:06, Vic wrote:
> > At least with windows you have
> > a flat playing field (you several playing fields, 98, me, 2000, XP, 2003,
> > Vista etc.), if you design a web app for windows IE you have a good
> > chance that it will work on all versions of windows.
>
> Tell me you're joking, please...
>
> The last estimates I saw reckon that 13% of all websites will be broken by
> the "upgrade" to IE7. And that, apparently, is a lower-than-expected
> figure because many sites deliberately don't code for standards compliance
> - they code to look right in various browsers. IE7 struggles with
> standards, apparently...
>
> Vic.
My point was not well made, with IE7 it will work with XP, Server 2003 and
Vista, so you build your site or web app to work with that then it will work.
But in the Linux world where Firefox is installed on several different distro
which all have to own little setting that need to be tweaked to make it work
is the nightmare for the developer.
Maybe Debian was forced, but by allowing the OS to run non free software do
they have the conviction of their own philosophy??
Tim
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