[Javascript] IE work-a-round question (re: checkboxes) OT

[John Warner]

I’m always amazed that it is called wasting time to make your code work with IE. Last I checked IE is 70 to 80% of all browsers out there. What puzzles me is why anyone would set out to code to 30% of browsers and then tweak to fit 70%, seems backwards to me. Like, hate, or whatever MS this just seems backwards to me. Argue all you want about standards or whatever, I live in the real world and try to code accordingly.  I’m reminded of the fellow who is standing in the pouring rain cursing the rain, like somehow this will make the rain stop. Get used to it, sometimes it rains, that is the real world.

 

John Warner

 

From: javascript-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:javascript-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Kamaleshwar Morjal
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 4:00 PM
To: JavaScript List
Subject: Re: [Javascript] IE work-a-round question (re: checkboxes) OT

 

 

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 8:25 PM, tedd <tedd at sperling.com> wrote:

At 2:24 PM -0700 4/11/08, Peter Brunone wrote:
>     And please...  I'm no Microsoft flunkie, but acting like they're
>singlehandedly holding back the web?  That's just a teeny bit silly.

Not silly at all.

You said "singlehandedly" -- that reminds me of when Bill Gates was
subpoenaed to appear in front of Congress defending M$ (re monopoly
and predator pricing issues) and said that M$ was only one of several
OS developers. The Congressman asked the audience to hold up their
hand if they used Windows and the entire audience did. The
Congressman replied "Looks like a monopoly to me." (or words to that
affect).
[..... ]

Just look at the time that css developers waste trying to get
versions of IE to comply -- that's not a minor issue.  I could go on,
but what's the point? We ALL have to live with the M$ mistake.

Cheers,


100% agreement here.. 




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"Best things in the world are free; FREEDOM is priceless!"
km

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