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It's sort-of two sides to the same coin in that the end result is functionally similar, but I think it provokes a different development methodology. If you start with the fancy stuff and degrade, the developers are working with the mindset of fancy new features vs. overall content & functionality. If you design for the baseline, you design to meet the business goals and then 'pretty it up' for the users with the latest browsers. Also note that the time necessary to get a working site deployed should be less if you code to the minimum and then enhance. That minimum version can be tested/deployed as soon as it's done and enhanced content can be added as it is developed. It would seem to me that you would get a working and functional site more quickly vs. having the developers doing all of the fancy stuff and then going back to re-work non-fancy equivalents. The small site I maintain on our iSeries, used by about 1000 unique people a month and a few hundred a day, is mostly straight HTML with a small bit of Javascript here and there, none of which is essential to the functionality or appearance. Some of the HTML is generated by net.data but it is still HTML to the client. Any browser that supports tables will have full functionality and equivalent look and feel. John A. Jones, CISSP Americas Information Security Officer Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. V: +1-630-455-2787 F: +1-312-601-1782 john.jones@xxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James H. H. Lampert Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:08 AM To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: Re: Development standards for the World ( was RE:ASPThresholdinformation ) "Jones, John (US)" wrote: > Don't degrade gracefully; enhance appropriately. That's the better > business decision as the company's goal should be to reach the desired > audience first and add 'wow factor' and advanced functionality for the > advanced/up-to-date/fringe audience members later. Two sides of the same coin: if you code to a browser-independent standard, then "enhance appropriately," then a graceful degradation is assured. Of course, everything is relative to the target audience of a web site: if it is for internal use in a large corporation where official corporate software standards are enforced on a draconian or even fascist level, then browser-independence is irrelevant (but in such an environment, why bother with a web site or browsers at all?) Likewise, if the raison d'etre of one's web site is to distribute Flash content, then graceful degradation is simply a matter of turning away incompatible clients at the home page. But since my own web site is targeted at the general public, and the content is pure HTML, I choose to develop one that doesn't care what browser is used. -- James H. H. Lampert Professional Dilettante http://www.hb.quik.com/jamesl http://members.hostedscripts.com/antispam.html http://www.thehungersite.com Help America's Passenger Trains. http://www.saveamtrak.org Read My Lips: No More Atrocities! -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. This email is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this email without the author's prior permission. We have taken precautions to minimize the risk of transmitting software viruses, but we advise you to carry out your own virus checks on any attachment to this message. We cannot accept liability for any loss or damage caused by software viruses. The information contained in this communication may be confidential and may be subject to the attorney-client privilege. If you are the intended recipient and you do not wish to receive similar electronic messages from us in the future then please respond to the sender to this effect.
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