Re: wine and IE
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:17:46AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney spake thus:
> -- Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> wrote
> (on Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 10:15 PM -0800):
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 03:07:59PM -0600, DvB wrote:
> > > I've never done this, but I've seen it done (with me own eyes! :-) I
> > > don't think it worked as well as the native Linux browsers and probably
> > > would crash as soon as it started doing its Direct-X crap but, for your
> > > purposes, it would probably work (one would assume you do standards
> > > compliant development).
> >
> > Well, if that's the assumption, why bother getting IE to work at all?
> > If you go to the standard, and it works in one browser, than
> > it'll work anywhere. Save yourself the trouble. 8:o)
>
> Because IE has around 90% share of the browser market -- if it doesn't
> work on IE, you lose your audience.
I tend to agree. Even getting something to display correctly on
different versions of the same browser and browsers which are said to be
from the same codebase can often be a frustrating exercise.
Sam
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