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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 07/13/06 11:37
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Rik wrote:
> I still like my sites to be as similar as possible in various
> browsers.
Then you are setting yourself a goal which is not merely pointless,
but actively counter-productive.
The end users care, at the first priority, about the content that
you're making available to them, and at the second priority, that it
looks presentable without having to wait *too* long for the furniture
to arrive.
Hardly any of them (*not even* those who use several browsers) are
going to display the same page in different browsers and deduct points
for any merely cosmetic differences.
Even "looking the same" on Firefox and on Firefox is not necessarily a
good idea, if their respective users have widely different needs
(visual acuity etc.).
And one of the main aims of the WWW was to present the same content
across a wide range of presentation situations. Sure, the
presentation situations that we had then were quite unlike the ones
that we have today, but the principle is the same.
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