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So I guess I'm blessed that my workplace's intranet is coded to Firefox, and we dropped support for IE6 for our customer-facing sites a year ago?
by Pistos2 17y ago
So I guess I'm blessed that my workplace's intranet is coded to Firefox, and we dropped support for IE6 for our customer-facing sites a year ago?
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoIf it's "coded to Firefox" then they're doing it wrong. If it's coded to web standards and only FF is supported, that's a different matter. Suppose a patent problem came up (as with GIFs in the past) and FF couldn't be used legally any more. If you code to FF you'll probably find you're OK, but if you code to standards then any standards compliant browser should be a drop-in replacement.
- Pistos2 17y agoIt's coded so that we only have to check if it works in Firefox. It's not like we're explicitly trying to leverage Firefox-only markup or CSS. I believe the idea is to reduce waste of development time and effort. I think I'm going to call YAGNI at this point re: future patent problems. I don't see that happening soon, and I'd gladly take the time savings now, and cross that bridge when we get to it -- if it comes at all.