RE: ASP Threshold information

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: James H H Lampert
> 
> More to the point, the whole purpose of the Web was to
> provide an easy-to-use, application-neutral, OS-neutral,
> hardware-neutral system for sharing information. Writing
> to a specific browser, and not taking the time to design
> pages to degrade gracefully, defeats the whole purpose.

Well, more to the point it was for college professors to share technical
documents.  HTML was designed to allow embedded formatting to travel
along with the document.  The Web has obviously evolved since then, with
CSS being just one of the many standards.

And as the Web has evolved, so to have its purposes.  There is no "one
purpose" for the Web, any more than there is one purpose for cable
television (and thus the many "standards" there).

If, my purpose is to enable my clients to access a business application
using Windows desktops, then writing graceful degradation to Netscape
4.57 does not serve them.  And since pure cross-browser development
requires a non-zero amount of time and development dollars, and it
actually costs my shareholders money and is thus fiscally irresponsible.

Joe