- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:27:59 +0100
- To: "'w3c-wai-ig@w3.org'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> From: David Poehlman [SMTP:poehlman@clark.net] > > sorry dave, I don't understand your message? > [DJW:] Most commercial web page designers use an 80:20 rule. They design for the commercially best 80% of the market and either pretend that the rest does not exist, or add workarounds, after the main design, to support some of the 20%. IE is getting near to covering 80% on its own, so it is likely that the approach will be: - design to produce the desired look and feel on IE 5 (empirically to a significant extent); - fixup so that it is workable on IE 4 and Windows NS 4; - pretend that Opera, IE3-, NS on Unix, Lynx, Amaya, etc. don't exist. For some markets, Web-TV may be tolerated. The behaviour they are designing for is not just the documented behaviour (HTML says very little about presentation details and sites do not generally fully specify a CSS environment, even if CSS were to work properly), but the specific error recovery (most HTML is invalid) and implementation details of the rendering. To compete well against IE with real HTML, a browser has to behave in essentially the same way as IE, not just conform to the HTML, and possibly, CSS specifications. The exact details will depend on the target market. If the market is more saturated, they are more likely to support more browsers. If the market is very large, they may support more browsers. [DJW:] -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS.
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