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Posted by Ed Mullen on 07/21/07 18:29
El Kabong wrote:
> "Ed Mullen" <ed@edmullen.net> wrote in message
> news:84KdnTkxuc8YFDzbnZ2dnUVZ_q7inZ2d@comcast.com...
>> Animesh K wrote:
>>> Bergamot wrote:
>>>> Animesh K wrote:
>>>>> Sherm Pendley wrote:
>>>>>> It's a *beta* - have you reported the bug to Apple?
>>> <snip>
>>>> Gee, I guess we should tell this to Microsoft next time they want to
>>>> release a new version of IE for beta testing. ;) BTW, nobody "imposed"
>>>> this thing on you. You are free to *not* use it.
>>> Microsoft is a different story. At times, people using windows don't even
>>> know anything beyond IE. And that's why IE has about 65% market. Telling
>>> IE about bugs makes the life of designer simpler.
>>>
>>> Even Msoft should hire people for finding bugs! I am not trying to defend
>>> Msoft. Their browser is much worse compared to Safari. In fact I would
>>> not call Safari bad just because of 2-3 bugs that I noticed.
>>>
>>>
>>>>> if Safari misbehaves. Who reports the error? It's a headache of Steve,
>>>>> not mine.
>>>> Beta software will have bugs - it's the nature of the beast. Get over it
>>>> or don't use it, but it's pointless to whine about it.
>>>>
>>> Well someone claimed that universal browser should be Safari. I had to
>>> tell about the misbehavior. I am not whining, just telling it doesn't
>>> even copy paste right in certain situations.
>> The point is that Beta software is NOT a final release version: It is put
>> out there for people to test and find bugs before the first "release"
>> version is put out into the market. It's fine to test a Beta release and
>> comment on problems. It makes no sense to complain that a Beta HAS
>> problems. It's /supposed/ to have problems.
>
> Then as a professional Web designer, trying to make a living designing
> functional, practical Web sites, maybe I should ignore the beta versions and
> stick to working with "released" versions. In fact, why waste time designing
> for browsers that stats show are used by less than 5% of Web visitors? After
> all, when this project is finished, the next one awaits.
>
> El
>
>
Depends on where the problems are in the Beta version. If they're
security, feature, or interface issues that don't affect page rendering,
it's probably not a problem from a page designer's standpoint. On the
other hand, it's certainly valid to stick with release versions.
As for percentage of market usage, what does that matter? I'd approach
it instead as: "I'm not going to write hacks to account for a particular
browser's inability to render pages according to the standards." If a
browser with 1% usage renders HTML and CSS properly, you have no problem.
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