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It’s time to stop blaming Internet Explorer
- enraged_camel 14y ago"What makes the web beautiful is precisely that there are multiple browsers and, if you build things correctly, your sites and applications work in them all." I work for a company that develops web applications, and I can tell you that the above statement is absolute hogwash. It's a major PITA to implement features such that the user experience is uniform and consistent across all major browsers. In a lot of cases we have had to decide against implementing certain features because they required technologies that were available only in browser X (and X almost always turns out to be Chrome or Firefox). This is not good for the web, and it does not make the web "beautiful." It's basically fragmentation.
- astrodust 14y agoExactly. If you build things correctly it does not work. If you build things precisely incorrectly, it works well.
- mnicole 14y agoWhether it's IE, FF3.6 or whomever else, I'll blame them for stifling my creativity and ability to make things work and look good in a timeframe that doesn't make me pull my hair out. Telling us that we're not meant to work in web if we can't handle these things is a weak argument; I expect a bit of pull and tug in any line of work, and I'll gladly do it, but when the time spent troubleshooting for older/inconsistent browsers is so detrimental to a team's ability to meet deadlines time and time again that you have to hire people specifically for it instead of using that money to innovate elsewhere, something's amiss. I can only assume how many developers there are at Yahoo!, no less redundant roles and people that have been debugging these issues for a decade+ and know the problems they'll run into like the back of their hand. Smaller agencies and development teams don't have those people to rely on and they shouldn't have to.