[OT] Re: Short forum post on REST API

[Adam D. Ruppe]

Daniel Gibson wrote:
> or did you like writing a different version  of
> your websites for each browser?

I've never found that to be actually necessary. Worst problems I
ever had as a developer were actually Firefox 2... while IE6 and 7
might have needed a few hacks, they could always do the job. Firefox
2 often left me hanging. I hated that piece of junk.

Anyway, with IE6 (IE5 is before my time), the worst that I ever needed
was a few isolated lines of javascript - which can be abstracted
into reusable functions - and a few little bits of CSS, easily
done with conditional comments.

It's really very little work, more like 10% more than the 100% more
implied by "different version [..] for each browser".

Hell, I think I spend more time writing

border-radius
-moz-border-radius
-webkit-border-radius

and similar -browser- prefixes over and over again than I spent
doing IE6 adjustments.


That said, I am happy to see it mostly gone, even if it's
replacements still suck in their own ways.

> surprised that you and Nick seem to like these old versions of the IE.

The real surprise is how much of HTML5 is just mimicing IE5's functions! It's a
good decision, just an ironic one.