"Oleg Kobets" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Awarness: > Mostly companies are not aware that there is such thing as Linux and so they > never tell the people who actually build the site that it should support > non-IE browsers.
The issue is not Linux. FWIW I am weird enough to have Mozilla as my default browser on Windows at work - I like it better than IE and I like the fact that I have the same browser on both Linux and Windows. The real issue is that whatever you do inside should not break standard protocols and interfaces. That's what people are not aware of. > Costs: > Even if the company knows about Linux and wants it's users to be able to use > the site, the people / company that building the site can say "Ohh, it's > Linux, so it's more hours and will cost more". Then the managers will do a > little math and figure that Linux number of Linux users is so small that it > would probably be not wotrh it. This is BS. Don't take it personally - it's not you who is BSing here. A company need not hire two web programmers to build a version of a web site for Windows/IE and another version for Linux/[other browsers]. Once it realizes there are standards out there it needs one programmer to do the job. Once. Quicker. Without the extra effort to make it IE-specific. The only extra cost here is that it needs to hire a programmer who knows about standards (and who has bothered to learn the IE/specific stuff to fix things, not to create new ones) and not a 15-year-old nephew of the CFO. Hiring the 15-year-old is, by the way, more expensive mid- and long-term. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
