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The missing lesson: Once a particular rendering engine has beyond 90% market share, it doesn't matter what the standard says. All that matters is what that engi

• phkahler 8y ago
  >> Once a particular rendering engine has beyond 90% market share, it doesn't matter what the standard says. All that matters is what that engine does. That is exactly the wrong thinking that got people in trouble. The lesson is not to go that route. Every product that has ever existed had an end of life. To tailor your site to the browser of the day at the expense of standards compatibility is short sighted. People like to go for fancy new things and are willing to ignore standards and 2nd place browsers when they don't really have to. Your job is to make a usable site/app, not to show off how you managed to pull of some nifty thing enabled by using fancy proprietary feature X. Stick you your job and check your ego at the door please. You'll be better of down the road. A web site is not a product, it's a way to help sell your product. Unless you're a dot-com company and you're really trying to sell your web site to investors, in which case I don't really care do what you want.