I agree with you in that if you mess with IT, you should get canned. And, I appreciate that you took the time to post your opinion. I do value it and I mostly agree with you.
On the other hand, there is so many lazy people out there just writing for IE these days that they're just left the standards that allowed the internet to grow in the first place.
In my industry, over 85% of my clients are NOT on IE, they're on MAC using Safari. All of those guys continually gripe that they can't see websites.
The truth is, much of corporate america is native IE, but some of the government is anti-IE, and I assure everybody that a huge portion of the entertainment industry is just flat anti PC. [IE on the mac doesn't count, it's a big fat boat anchor.]
In a nutshell, there are other things out there other than the standard windows ghosted win2k ghosted corporate installation that we've all had in our lives. Denial is a river in Egypt I say.
Just to prove my point a little more, on three occasions, I had outsourcing companies that were pretty microsoft driven contact me once asking me if they could do some work for our company. I checked their sites and none of them worked in anything but IE6. I told all three they should, instead of trying to get new busines, put available deveopers on their own sites.
If it doesn't work for everybody, in all browsers, it shouldn't be on the public internet.
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I agree with you in that if you mess with IT, you should get canned. And, I appreciate that you took the time to post your opinion. I do value it and I mostly agree with you.
On the other hand, there is so many lazy people out there just writing for IE these days that they're just left the standards that allowed the internet to grow in the first place.
In my industry, over 85% of my clients are NOT on IE, they're on MAC using Safari. All of those guys continually gripe that they can't see websites.
The truth is, much of corporate america is native IE, but some of the government is anti-IE, and I assure everybody that a huge portion of the entertainment industry is just flat anti PC. [IE on the mac doesn't count, it's a big fat boat anchor.]
In a nutshell, there are other things out there other than the standard windows ghosted win2k ghosted corporate installation that we've all had in our lives. Denial is a river in Egypt I say.
Just to prove my point a little more, on three occasions, I had outsourcing companies that were pretty microsoft driven contact me once asking me if they could do some work for our company. I checked their sites and none of them worked in anything but IE6. I told all three they should, instead of trying to get new busines, put available deveopers on their own sites.
If it doesn't work for everybody, in all browsers, it shouldn't be on the public internet.
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