Off: pop up killer software

[Richard Lockwood]

Oh buggrit, here we go again.

As a web developer, what standards do I develop for?  WWW standards
compliant browsers (ha!) or IE?  Given that less than 5% of users use non-IE
browsers - and, to quote Mr Dillon, "5% isn't significant, 5% is an error
margin"

I can either do what's morally right (develop to standards), or I can
develop what 96% (in reality around 99.2% when it comes to sites I've worked
on recently) of users can use.

No contest.

And don't tell me that you can develop complex, stylesheeted sites for IE
that work perfectly well in Mozilla (Standards compliant my ar5e) based
browsers, because there are significant differences between the
implementations of CSS.  As evidence, I give you the "padding" attribute.

Right - my point has been made.  I'll develop for my users, and frankly,
that means developing for IE.  Yes, there are browser alternatives to IE,
some of them very good, but a) none of them are a patch on IE, and b) From
my point of view, they should all die, horribly.  I want one browser that
all users have got. So I'm happy to go with IE.  Sorry and all that.

Cheers,

Rich.

ps. For those who insist on using browsers other than IE while still using a
Windows machine, I present Netscape as evidence that YOU'RE WRONG.  Can
anyone tell me how you spell "Backward Compatibility"?

pps. Mind you, probably not round here.  (See spelling / rants passim)

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>
> => The Google toolbar effectively blocks pop-ups while using MSIE.
> => Over 550 ads blocked so far.
>
> That's cool, so long as you don't mind running spyware on your system
> (http://www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html, item 6)... >;-)
>
> Sure, there are lots of add-ons and plugins for M$IE for blocking
> pop-ups.  My point was that there are also browser alternatives that
> have this functionality as a built-in, designed feature.
>
> Unfortunately, some WWW sites are implemented such that using
> something other than M$IE is not an option... :-(
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> PS: The browser I use a lot (links -g) even has a built-in pop-up
> blocker!
>
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
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