[thelist] WebReview responds to WaSP browser death march

martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com
Mon Feb 26 05:23:36 CST 2001


Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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>It's either that or fork your code so that some get tables, others
>get divs. I'm not complaining about the extra work of forking a site
>-- but it is a right nuisance to maintain on anything larger than a
>very small site.

But on larger sites, the content and presentation should be kept
separate anyway (think: templates...), so it's less of an issue than
you'd think.

>So is it as clear cut as WaSP's 'screw the old browsers', Aardvark's
>'my sites look the same on all browsers', or golive's 'screw the
>standards'? I'd really like to hear how others approach this
>(arguably fundamental) problem.

For commercial clients, the core is "the site has to be usable (not
necessarily look identical, but be at least recognisable) for pretty
much all users in the target audience".

Cheers
Martin


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