Re: IBM Web support

not .97%, 99.97%  (original number was .03%)

Granted, my numbers are off, (oh Lord I feel that I am getting dragged 
into this void) but a vast majority of the people use Internet Explorer. 
And if the features in that outweigh the benefits of supporting "obscure" 
browsers then I can understand someone making a business decision either 
way.

When the bull elephants blow their horn even IBM has to scramble to 
support their 'changes'.  Like when Adobe's latest viewer did not support 
pdf's generated by a version of Infoprint Server.  IBM complained mightily 
to Adobe, but scrambled out with ptf's quite quick.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




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I made the post and I grant you that it has "conflict"
on the subject matter. I just didn't want to put
"whining & bitching" in the subject line and insult
the other .97% of the world.

I am curious as to what you think the other .97% use as
a browser.


rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Perhaps replies should branch off into two tangents.
> 
> 1)  That wants to rehash why all browsers should be supported vs. why 
> bother limiting your website to functions just to support that .03% of 
> people that are not using a compatible browser.

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