The key goal (for the Web Standards Project as well as many other groups) is interoperability. As a developer, I’d prefer to not have to write the same site multiple times for different browsers. Standards are a (critical!) means to this end, and we focus on the standards that will help actual, real-world interoperability the most. As a consumer and a developer, I expect stuff to just work, and I also expect backwards compatibility. When I get a new version of my current browser, I expect all the sites that worked before will still work.
Archive for the ‘IE’ Category
Mac and IE7
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007There has been cross talk about Microsoft releasing IE 7 for Mac.
IE 5.2 for Mac is every web developers nightmare when it comes to browser compliance and web standards. Microsoft itself recommends Apple Safari
Digital signage engine
Thursday, September 27th, 2007We recently wrote specifications and designed an automated multi location multi player advt engine for a client in NY – USA, built on the viewsonic media player, apparently to be used for superstores across the East coast.
Interestingly the client also wanted the LAMP web application to run on plain vanilla PCs supporting IE and Firefox browsers
