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Posted by jb on 11/23/35 11:44
lengthsman@btinternet.com wrote:
> Normally the threat of even more hacks to render a page would leave me
> in a cold sweat but regarding IE7 problems, not today. MS Vista has
> been put back at least nine months, why? I suspect they have gone down
> the wrong track and they are having to re-evaluated where Windows
> should be. I'm old enough to remember people not taking Windows For
> Workgroups seriously as networking was Novell's field.
>
> Off topic? How about if I were to change the perspective.
>
> OS: Google / Yahoo
> Server: Apache
> Application code: HTML,Java,PHP developed in Adobe,Macromedia,SUN
> File store: XML
>
> What else do we need? Terminals and a rendering engine for PDA, Mobile
> Phones, PC's etc...
>
> Terminals : Linux, Windows, Mac. And that's before you even start on
> hand held devices running embedded Linux and windows or bespoke
> OS's...
>
> Rendering engines: They way I see it is that everybody is aiming for
> W3C compliance with the exception of maybe MS who up until a couple of
> days ago thought that they could still control the market. The days of
> the browser wars with subtle differences desperately trying to keep a
> percentage of the market has long gone and those not W3C compliant
> today will be the once ran, tomorrow. Not convinced?
>
> How many rendering engines are there today? Did you include the
> PDA's, Phones, WebTV? Could you employ enough hacks and server side
> detection to cover all of them and still meet UK (coming to EU and US
> soon) accessibility? I don't think so either and the market has known
> this for a while. Like the mobile phone market, products will have to
> be feature rich as network compatibility is just too important to mess
> with.
>
> What brought on this rant? A meeting with a client who's retains the
> old adage that 'the customer is always right', and well most of his
> competitors have fallen by the wayside because in his customer's
> words 'they didn't give them what they wanted'. Multiplied by
> what he now wanted was an e-commerce system that would allow a customer
> to browse products on their PC, if they need time to finalise the
> decision, order or check status on their mobile phone or PDA.
>
> The standards are there, as are most of the platforms, hands up who
> want's to exclude themselves! MS IE7? Opera and Firefox and others
> are constantly fixing their rendering engines with regular updates to
> meet the emerging market trends.
>
IE7 is rock solid.
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