Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 04/12/06 00:33

On 11 Apr 2006 08:04:14 -0700, "SpaceGirl"
<nothespacegirlspam@subhuman.net> wrote:

>> > If you design web sites, which browsers do you support these days?

>> all of the ones I'm aware of, to varying degrees (gracefull degredation -
>> they should be able to see content, navigate + fill out forms on any
>> browser).

>> > If you've left certain ones out, why?

>> The richest woman in the world might walk into our shop using Netscape Mac,
>> are we really going to refuse her service because of her OS/Browser type?

>If it meant that I was to busy writing extra code to support her
>browser to catch the second, third and fourth richest women in the
>world that came in the next day - yes, I would ignore her.

Indeed...it simply does not make sense to try and achieve 100% market
penetration. It's like the balance you should seek between speed and
quality. Yes, if you do it slower than Keeristmas it might be
"perfect", but then you'll never really get anything accomplished.
And contrariwise if you do everything at light blinding speed you
might get a lot accomplished but it'll be so poor in quality that
it'll all just fall apart. The trick is to find a suitable balance.
For me, that means building Flash based sites with PHP back ends for
additional functionality along with a basic, mostly text based fall
back version for anyone viewing the site with Flash disabled or on a
text only browser (like Lynx or some kind of a pda like device).

--

Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
http://www.backwater-productions.net
http://www.backwater-productions.net/hatter-blog


Hatter Quotes
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"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."

"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."

"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity
of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"

"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct
that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others
of its relevancy."

"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start
creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."

"Reality is directly proportionate to how creative you are."

"People are pretty fucking high on themselves if they think that
they're just born with a soul. *snicker*...yeah, like they're just
givin em out for free."

"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.
So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,
to their merry little mess."

"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly
horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip
their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand
sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible
images burned into their tiny little minds'."

"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even
properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."

"Those who record history are those who control history."

"Is my .sig delimiter broken? Really? You're sure? Awww,
gee...that's too bad...for YOU!" `, )

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