[thelist] targeting effectively (was: navigation through form posting)

Matt Liotta mliotta at iname.com
Sun Mar 24 17:20:01 CST 2002


Maybe all of companies with QA departments for their web applications should
lay everyone off and hire you as a consultant because you have the silver
bullet to solve their problems.

-Matt

On 3/24/02 3:09 PM, "Warden, Matt" <mwarden at mattwarden.com> wrote:

> On Mar 24, Matt Liotta had something to say about Re: [thelist] targeting...
>
>> The is right on the money. While it is certainly possible to develop sites
>> that cater to everyone, it is a waste of money. It simple costs more to make
>> a site accessible every different browser. If the market research says 90%
>> of my users have browsers that support my site than I am doing fine. It
>> would probably cost me more money than I would make to try and get my site
>> to support the other 10%. This is what is known as the law of diminishing
>> returns.
>
> I highly doubt it.
>
> You can dig into that remaining 10% simply by coding valid html and
> writing JS that tests methods before executing them.
>
> Seriously, it's not that hard... and *definitely* not as hard as you're
> making it seem.
>
> thanks,
>
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> mattwarden
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