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> "HTML5: Most of the web doesn't have support for it yet." Say what? You probably meant to say "most of the internet explorer installed base doesn't have supp

by Toshio 14y ago

> "HTML5: Most of the web doesn't have support for it yet." Say what? You probably meant to say "most of the internet explorer installed base doesn't have support for it" which is a far, far cry from "most of the web".

pjmlp 14y ago
Like all the remaining browsers if you really need to cover a wide array of devices, operating systems and browsers. Web development is pretty much code once, fix everywhere.
- napoleond 14y ago
  Web development is pretty much code once, fix everywhere. I'm tweeting this. Brilliant.
rymith 14y ago
No, what he said was correct. Even my beloved chrome does not have 100% compliance. Now combine the incomplete implementations, coupled with the rate of browser adoption, HTML5 simply isn't ubiquitous for a number of years. So you will be looking at polyfills and excanvas scripts for the foreseeable future. What he could have said was 100% of the web does not have 100% support for HTML5.
- georgemcbay 14y ago
  And when "HTML5" (whatever that means anymore) finally is ubiquitous it'll be the old tired standard and everyone will be dying for the day they can finally use all that hot new stuff in the next version. Thus is the nature of any technology whose design is controlled largely by a committee of companies who are each other's top competitors.
disgruntledphd2 14y ago
Yeah, but IE is huge. It really is, and I wouldn't have believed it before I started working on a large site in Europe (approx 900K uniques per day). At least a third of our visitors are using IE, sometimes even IE8 or 7 (we've finally gotten rid of 6). I often wonder who these people are, and then I talk to my boss, who uses IE8 and complains constantly that we all use Chrome (on Windows, FF for the win on a decent machine/machine running Linux). So yeah, unfortunately, if you're doing ecommerce for ordinary people, you're stuck with supporting IE and the whole host of issues that entails. Seriously, 100char limit? WTF Microsoft, fix that already.

by Toshio 14y ago

pjmlp 14y ago

Like all the remaining browsers if you really need to cover a wide array of devices, operating systems and browsers. Web development is pretty much code once, fix everywhere.

napoleond 14y ago
Web development is pretty much code once, fix everywhere. I'm tweeting this. Brilliant.

rymith 14y ago

No, what he said was correct. Even my beloved chrome does not have 100% compliance. Now combine the incomplete implementations, coupled with the rate of browser adoption, HTML5 simply isn't ubiquitous for a number of years. So you will be looking at polyfills and excanvas scripts for the foreseeable future. What he could have said was 100% of the web does not have 100% support for HTML5.

georgemcbay 14y ago
And when "HTML5" (whatever that means anymore) finally is ubiquitous it'll be the old tired standard and everyone will be dying for the day they can finally use all that hot new stuff in the next version. Thus is the nature of any technology whose design is controlled largely by a committee of companies who are each other's top competitors.

disgruntledphd2 14y ago

Yeah, but IE is huge. It really is, and I wouldn't have believed it before I started working on a large site in Europe (approx 900K uniques per day). At least a third of our visitors are using IE, sometimes even IE8 or 7 (we've finally gotten rid of 6). I often wonder who these people are, and then I talk to my boss, who uses IE8 and complains constantly that we all use Chrome (on Windows, FF for the win on a decent machine/machine running Linux). So yeah, unfortunately, if you're doing ecommerce for ordinary people, you're stuck with supporting IE and the whole host of issues that entails. Seriously, 100char limit? WTF Microsoft, fix that already.