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Let an old fart tell you a story of a long ago place. There was a time when standards were of the utmost importance! (hence ANSI and ASCII etc.) Back then ('70's and '80s) Competitors were constantly one upping one another, features were added but standards were absolutely maintained. Your competitor could take your improvements include them and add to them (Not do the same thing differently!) to produce an even better product. Today the competition for the top is so great competitors are constantly producing thier own standards, if somebody comes out with a better way to do something thier competitor makes the same improvment but does it differently and improves on it to try to leave thier competitor "out in the cold", We are the ones that usually end up paying the highest price via all the labor required to try to find a way to make it all work the same. I think our job is tough enough. I am done with this compatibility thing. I must write my sites to work with IE, like it or not for e-commerce it is a given that you must be IE compatible. Folks I don't care what you think of Microsoft, they were there first and they set the standards, trying to compete by being different isn't helping anybody. I write for IE and I really don't care what browser you are using to view my sites, if it doesn't look quite right, TOUGH! You make the adjustment and use a compatible browser!!!
P.S. Even Apple Gave in and switched to Intel!
Last edited by Sleeping Troll; 09-18-2008 at 12:08 AM..
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