- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:51:15 -0000
- To: <public-webapi@w3.org>
"Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com> >> I can't agree this statement, no content authors do that, it's simply >> unreliable on the web and has been forever. > > I have spent a lot of time fixing Safari to work with sites only tested > in one browser, or at best in two. Based on this, I am certain that > content authors do this. I don't understand, because your fixing your user agent to make sites that only work in one browser work with them, you conclude that the sites were only tested in that browser? I don't agree that is a valid conclusion from the data. For example, I've written lots of code that I test and know doesn't work in Safari, I don't do anything about it, because I know it's a marginal browser for my audience and that will soon be fixed to work - exactly what you're doing. Testing and seeing something fail in a UA, and then fixing it are seperate issues, the cost of the fix may be too high, other than people who are authoring private pages in a non-professional way (who's script is only going to be cut+paste anyway) People test in many UA's, in a huge number of projects and in online discussions I've never met anyone who doesn't yet is attempting to be even half serious - that doesn't mean they fix all the bugs they find of course. Especially ones where it's obvious the browser will soon catch up with the de-facto behaviour elsewhere. Cheers, Jim.
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