It’s time to stop blaming Internet Explorer(nczonline.net)
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It’s time to stop blaming Internet Explorer
http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2012/07/11/its-time-to-stop-blaming-internet-explorer/
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"What makes the web beautiful is precisely that there are multiple browsers and, if you build things correctly, your sites and applications work in them all."
I work for a company that develops web applications, and I can tell you that the above statement is absolute hogwash. It's a major PITA to implement features such that the user experience is uniform and consistent across all major browsers. In a lot of cases we have had to decide against implementing certain features because they required technologies that were available only in browser X (and X almost always turns out to be Chrome or Firefox).
This is not good for the web, and it does not make the web "beautiful." It's basically fragmentation.
I work for a company that develops web applications, and I can tell you that the above statement is absolute hogwash. It's a major PITA to implement features such that the user experience is uniform and consistent across all major browsers. In a lot of cases we have had to decide against implementing certain features because they required technologies that were available only in browser X (and X almost always turns out to be Chrome or Firefox).
This is not good for the web, and it does not make the web "beautiful." It's basically fragmentation.
Exactly. If you build things correctly it does not work. If you build things precisely incorrectly, it works well.
I can only assume how many developers there are at Yahoo!, no less redundant roles and people that have been debugging these issues for a decade+ and know the problems they'll run into like the back of their hand. Smaller agencies and development teams don't have those people to rely on and they shouldn't have to.