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Posted by El Kabong on 07/22/07 12:26
"Ben C" <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote in message
news:slrnfa6c1j.l10.spamspam@bowser.marioworld...
> On 2007-07-22, El Kabong <davelong40@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> "Neredbojias" <monstersquasher@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9974AD1D14682nanopandaneredbojias@198.186.190.161...
>>> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:35:22
>>> GMT nice.guy.nige scribed:
>>>
>>>> While the city slept, El Kabong (davelong40@verizon.net) feverishly
>>>> typed...
>>>>> In fact, why waste time designing for browsers that stats show
>>>>> are used by less than 5% of Web visitors?
> [...]
>> No, when my client is looking at doubled or tripled costs for his site's
>> design
>
> How do you work that out? How can it possibly cost less to "design" for
> all the bugs and unspecified behaviour in IE than to start with a
> (relatively) stable platform like Firefox or Safari for which you have
> available such powerful tools as specifications and logic?
>
>> in order to appeal to a handful of nerds who are more interested in
>> research (or just being weird) than actually shopping, he'll usually
>> opt to ignore those visitors using the geekware. It just boils down to
>> a combination of diminished return on investment and good business
>> sense.
>
> No, it's very poor business sense to work with bad tools and in a stupid
> way because you can't see past the immediate goal.
>
> Even once you have managed to concoct a tag soup that works on some
> version of IE, what reason is there to believe it will continue to work
> on even the next minor revision? How difficult will it be to fix if it's
> a mess thrown together to target a particular browser by people who
> think that reading specs and understanding things is only for "nerds
> doing research"?
Time is literally money when designing for payment and the key to staying
within the tightly bid budget is "stay generic". Since most PC and Mac
buyers use the machine as it came out of the box, they are my "primary" (not
"only" just primary) target, they are the group for whom I design. Feedback
comes to me from some trusted acquaintances and needed adjustments made but
I just don't waste my time or my client's money trying to ensure that the
freaks using the latest weirdware are happy.
Thanks to all for the advice, but I'm back to my lurker's corner.
El
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