Re: wine and IE
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:04:15AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> >Not everybody developing for the web is a shopkeeper (thank God). If I'm
> >not trying to sell something and therefore achieve Perfect Marketing Zen
> >in the quest to do so, I honestly don't care if their rendering is a bit
> >off due to them using a five-year-old browser; I'll write
> >standards-compliant content - which means that browsers should be able
> >to extract the information even if not all the formatting - and if the
> >rendering doesn't look right then that's their problem.
>
> Ah, Colin. You misunderstand my point. From an earlier post, except
> for the Ego pages, web pages are the store fronts of e-commerce.
I guess you must do e-commerce for a living, but for the rest of us the
distinction is not even close to as clear-cut as that. I actually find
it kind of offensive that e-commerce people think that everything that
predated them on the web must have been pure ego.
(Consider, for example, science, the birthplace of the web. If you think
that science is just ego then we have nothing further to discuss ...)
> To expect your customer (for ideas or goods or services) to change their
> ways to suit your page is ridiculous.
Which is why one uses semantic markup (tables, for example, aren't
semantic) to allow the "customer" to control things themselves. Sure,
some degree of testing is absolutely sensible, but good semantic markup
reduces the load on the coder as well.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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