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Posted by El Kabong on 07/21/07 17:08
"Ed Mullen" <ed@edmullen.net> wrote in message
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> 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
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