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"We have a responsibility to ourselves and to the Web to follow the principle of universality." Not feeling that at all, so speak for yourself. If I want to ta
by WayneDB 15y ago
"We have a responsibility to ourselves and to the Web to follow the principle of universality."
Not feeling that at all, so speak for yourself. If I want to target a specific browser or device, I do it when it makes sense. Screw universality. The users install what I tell them to or they don't get the privilege of using my site or product. (Do you think Steve Jobs would disagree?)
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoGiven how much he trumpeted HTML5 and the nixing of Flash from its, yes, I think he would disagree seriously. People begged Apple for the ability to create real apps. The original plan was to build HTML apps, but comparing a web app to a native app was no comparison at all (and it still isn't; I hate almost all web view"apps").
- politician 15y agoThis attitude leads to fragmentation which causes more headache e.g. the web browser market.
- awj 15y agoThat sounds like a great recipe to start justifying shaving off fractions of your market until you're down to only reaching 40%. Not saying that's what you're doing, but any kind of "Screw X, I will tell the users what they want" decisions have to be made carefully. It's a lot easier to think you've made a Steve Jobs kind of product than it is to actually make one.
- jiggy2011 15y agoI would think so, if you are talking about websites at least rather than an entire computing platform. The entire point of a website at it's core is to send and display pages of information, this isn't really a problem that should require specific versions of special software to solve. With the exception of requiring quicktime for the videos the apple website has always rendered fine for me on pretty much any browser I have viewed it with.