I am using Firefox, and I find that attitude among developers infuriating.
If not enough users are using a platform, let's actively sabotage for that platform by making it less viable, further justifying your own laziness? Is that it?
As someone who has gone from Amiga, to Mac, to Windows PCs, to FreeBSD and now Linux (not to mention the smart-phone story!), I take pride in my work being portable and cross-platform friendly. I have absolutely no desire to go back to the mono-culture days of MSIE.
If you put it on the web, it should work everywhere, otherwise you're just being lazy and/or incompetent.
Being portable and cross-platform doesn't mean you can't take advantage of things unique to a subset of platforms to provide a better user experience on those platforms. You just need to check for support and provide fallback on those platforms without support. One could easily argue that just using the lowest common denominator across platforms is in fact the lazy and/or incompetent option.
Also you mentioned in another comment there being 2 browser-engines. There are in fact 3 major browser-engines.
> Also you mentioned in another comment there being 2 browser-engines. There are in fact 3 major browser-engines.
Fair enough. I was thinking in terms of browser-engine families (WebKit-based, Gecko-based) and tried to keep things simple, because I didn't want to overcomplicate my comment.
You're right though that there's Google WebKit (Blink) and straight WebKit and that does make a difference which matters in this context.
Most of what I put on the public internet supports IE6 just fine.
It might not look as pretty but if nothing else (TLS etc) stands in the way it should Just Work (TM) thanks to the magic of generating the content on the server side and also careful use of CSS.
If not enough users are using a platform, let's actively sabotage for that platform by making it less viable, further justifying your own laziness? Is that it?
As someone who has gone from Amiga, to Mac, to Windows PCs, to FreeBSD and now Linux (not to mention the smart-phone story!), I take pride in my work being portable and cross-platform friendly. I have absolutely no desire to go back to the mono-culture days of MSIE.
If you put it on the web, it should work everywhere, otherwise you're just being lazy and/or incompetent.