[OT] Re: Short forum post on REST API

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Daniel Gibson" <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Am 03.04.2011 01:31, schrieb 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".
>>
>
> Yeah, it may not be 100% - however I've heard from other people and read 
> on the
> web that supporting IE6 was really time intensive - more than 10%.
> But it's just what I heard/read, I haven't got much experience with web
> development myself.
>

My experience with IE6 (from back in the day) has been much like Adam's. 
Yea, sometimes something would be a little bit different on the two or three 
different browsers that were out there, but I never found it to be a real 
problem. I suspect that most of the big complaints about it were from people 
who didn't understand the medium enough to know that being pixel-perfect 
wasn't (isn't) appropriate.