RE: Development standards for the World ( was RE: ASPThresholdinformation )

["Jones, John \(US\)" <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, Joe, I think the philosophy is backwards.  You should design
to a least common denominator.  Not necessarily Lynx or Netscape 2.x,
but whatever your company feels is approipriate.  For many it might be
IE 5.0, Netscape 4.7, Mozilla 1.7, and Forefox 1.0.  Maybe Opera 5 as
well.  At my company I think it's IE 5.x and up as IE is our standard
browser.  Regardless of what your baseline is, once your site has been
designed to work in the baseline environments, you may use any
additional developer time/money/resources to make the enhancements that
will only work in IE 6.0, Netscape 7, Safari, Blazer (my phone's
browser), require ActiveX, require ShockWave, etc.

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.

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 Joe Pluta
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:38 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Development standards for the World ( was RE:
ASPThresholdinformation )

Anyway, enough on this.  It's not a religious issue.  If your company
can afford you taking the time to make your code browser-agnostic, then
more power to you.  But if you don't, and you have to choose a specific
bropwser to support, then don't feel bad: it's just a business decision.

Joe

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