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

["James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"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.

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