UKNM: just one last rant on... browser compatibility - that old chestnut

[Ben Scott-Robinson]

You're absolutely right, Stephan, but the question remains...


Why?


Why are there developers out there who are unaware of the most basic net issues (THE most 

basic net issue)? It's not like they are hidden, every magazine or website (by no means just 

useit) I have seen that has anything to do with web design/construction covers this (with the 

exception of the Dynamic Duo type full-on build-your-own-OS-in-JavaScript type sites). 

And we're not talking about a bedroom hero producing this site. (I presume, I can't find 

developer details) I think it's either a good internal team or a reasonable prod house, judging 

by a fairly clean design, niceish branding, and capable db/transerve stuff.


My biggest gripe on this is, the site they have isn't hard to convert - I'd say that the v3 version 

could be virtually indistinguishable from the version they have now... In fact apart from the 

text rollovers, totally indistinguishable, both for appearance and code (note ott use of 

stylesheets to determine a very v3 font base). There's no serious DHTML, animation, layers, 

worthy mouse events... NOTHING worth the v4 exclusivity, yet it's screwed in Netscrap 3.


I've been involved in substantially more technically involved sites usable in IE3 (spit) 

ferkristsake.


This sort of thing is just sloppy... especially when that 16% (I've seen slightly higher figures 

than that for average usage, running at a little over 20%) are all potential customers, who 

won't come back if they have to scan a page of code before getting to the content...


Ahhhh, feel better now... After a week of trying to find a trick to align curves across frames in 

NS3, seeing this boiled my blood... I'll go back into my darkened room now...


Ben


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