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

[Matt Liotta]

I never said I was working hard to reach 90%. I was pointing out that you
can easily reach 90% of your target, but trying to get the last 10% can cost
you more than it is worth to do. Now maybe the situation that some or even
most people are in here allows them to easily get 99% of their target, but
that doesn't change the fact that it will still cost more development and QA
time to get the last 1%. You can move the numbers around all you want, but
the bottom-line is unchanged. There is simply no way to easily code for
every browser and platform out in the wild.

-Matt

On 3/24/02 4:02 PM, "Joel Canfield" <Joel at spinhead.com> wrote:

>> If your second point, "code smartly" is supposed to mean
>> handle the special cases that some target browsers produce,
>> than how does that not mean spending more development and QA time?
>>
>> -Matt
>
> As Hamilton Burger would say, "Asked and answered."
>
> Read back thru aardvark and matt's posts. In about a thousand words you've
> got a decade of coding experience you could benefit from.
>
> I'll attempt to summarize it: if you write good code, it will work nearly
> everywhere.
>
> The trick is knowing what 'good code' is. These guys do; look at their
> portfolios. They're not kids playing with the web; they're web professionals
> making a living and a name by being good at it.
>
> If you're working hard to reach 90% of your audience, and these guys are
> working less to reach 99%+ of their audience, who do you think is writing
> 'good code' ?
>
> spinhead