RE: LINUX Workstations -- MIDRANGE-L

But....

You can follow standards and still have these functions in IE. Or is that an
oxymoron? If you code most things to standards (so all browsers work) then
add those things that only IE can do, you are still getting your results
aren't you? I don't web program, so I don't know this from experience. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Phippard [mailto:MarkP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 1:33 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: LINUX Workstations

I happen to think Joe is right on this issue.  The "standards" do not
include a fundamental feature required for building a good user experience
in a web application - rich event handling in JavaScript.  Microsoft, on the
other hand, does include this feature in their implementation of the DOM in
IE.

I could be wrong, but I believe Joe has said in the past that his
application will work with other browsers, the UI simply will not include
all of the features that it does with IE.  For example, IE users can use
FKey shortcuts, and text that should be upper-cased or numeric-only will be
handled automatically in IE, but not Mozilla.  As long as he properly
validates/reformats the input on the server so that non-IE browsers can be
used, what is wrong with including IE-specific functionality that can
improve the application?


Mark









"Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Joe, it isn't religious. Its history. Ask the folks at Lotus 1-2-3 and
WordPerfect.
 
I didn't say "if it's not in Mozilla, it's bad." 
 
I say if its Microsoft it will hurt me professionally someday. Knowing how
much effort you have put into your product it flabbergasts me that you are
so quick & ready to put your head in that noose. 
 
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Booth Martin http://www.MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:44:34
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: LINUX Workstations
 
> From: Booth Martin
>
> By swallowing their bait you are only furthering the eventual demise 
> of your own product.
 
See, this is getting religious. Your argument has degraded to "if it's not
in Mozilla, it's bad."
 
Booth, what I'm doing is giving my clients the best possible product.
You and everybody on this list should realize that that is the single thing
we do. If you want to make Mozilla competitive, join the Open Source
development group and add the event filtering logic. Better yet, join the
standards team and get them to actually write standards that mean something
in the real world.
 
Joe

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