Development standards for the World ( was RE: ASP Threshold information )

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   8. RE: ASP Threshold information (Joe Pluta)
>
>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.


It does take time and effort, no doubt. I no web developer, so I can't judge 
how much.

Nor can I judge how much time it takes to develop using browser-specific 
standards.

It seems to me that the best use of development money (where the world at large 
is the audience, not a closed environment such as within a corporate LAN where 
corporate standards might dictate choices) would be to spend it along standard 
lines. If a standards body exists, then those standards should be followed and 
not the 'standard' of a particular company.

Can anybody provide some thoughts from experience?

Tom Liotta

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Kent, WA 98032
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