[ale] technology/politics correlation?

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 13:27, Brian Stanaland wrote:
> 
>> I installed Firefox on my work PC and surf with it exclusively. 
>> Except, of course, for the web-based applications written in-house,
>>  which do not work with Firefox.  I pointed it out to the guy who
>> wrote it and he said..."It's a good thing IE is the 'Company
>> Standard' so I don't need to worry about other browsers."
> 
> 
> At the risk of sounding lik an A&&****, your company's developer is a
>  moron. So far, every application/website I have found or developed
> that looks and works well under Firefox, looks and works just as well
> under IE.

Actually, that statement makes you sound intelligent (not to say you 
aren't. :) ) (double negative?)

> The converse is not true. There are numerous things that IE supports,
>  and bone-headed developers use (or totally moronic managment
> requires) that have not been accepted as a web standard primarily for
> reasons of open accessability by W3C.

Absolutely.  Develop for Firefox, then test under IE if need be.

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Until later, Geoffrey