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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Browser compatability is a giant, four-sided blade that cuts everyone that comes within a square kilometer of it. To design or not to design for web standards, that is the question. More ink has been spilt (metaphorically, of course) on this topic than nearly any other in the web world. We're all waiting for something to happen that will be catastrophic and convince everyone that browsers made during previous presidential campaigns of the last millenium should no longer be supported.... Does it depend on your client? On the sites traffic? On it's content? On it's audience? Yes to all, and, frankly, no to all. -Your client doesn't understand web standards, nine times out of ten. He wants to know why it doesn't work in NN4.6, though, which will continually boggle my mind. -The sites traffic can be a clincher (read: web standards makes smaller code = lower bandwidth charges) if you're dealing with numbers like Yahoo generates (and yet they ignore standards, too. <shrug> ) -If you're churning text out, you want it displayed as quickly as possible, and as amicably as possible to each and every browser... nonetheless, you also want blind people to be able to read it, don't you? Do you? -If your audience is a bunch of ailing 70 year olds... well, they're using NN4. If your audience is a bunch of hipster-do-rights, they're using Mozilla. If your audience is both? HMm... "The client is always right." "Give the client what he wants, not what he asks for." These are truisms we must deal with. You deal with them however you wish. ______________________________ [url=http://miscminutiae.com]s t e p h e n[/url] Loading...
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