[thelist] flash detection

[Martin]

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Erik Mattheis wrote on 4/5/01 5:21 pm

>Try browsing the net for a while with Netscape 2, or any browser with 
>stylesheets disabled 

Lack of stylesheets doesn't prevent you accessing the content/services.
The worst you'll get is lack of surface prettiness.

>(or stylesheets ENABLED on a Mac). 

bullshit. Only causes problems when developers don't think beyond
Win/IE

>Flash has been shipping with the major browsers for like ... years. 
>It's up to developers to force their audience to use reasonably 
>current technology.

Erik - you've just debarred yourself from any work for a commercial
client. The job of a developer is to help the client achieve their
business objectives. Which usually involves supporting as many
paying customers as possible (except for braindead dotcoms like
http://www.work24.co.uk and look what happened to them).

The key term is RoI - Return on Investment. If I own a business,
I invest money in your work to return a greater quantity of money
over the long term than I'd earn with it sitting in the bank. Your
work *has* to do that, or you don't get hired.

You heard the phrase "The customer is always right"? So why
do you want to force my (fictitious) customers into anything?
I want to make them comfortable. To trust me. Otherwise they're
not buying.

Cheers
Martin

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