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[Michael Stover]

>Trying to
make an online payment to Visa or check on one of Visa's policies? Are you
gonna be able to do that at MasterCard's website? With desktop software
stuff like that rarely happens. Basically, websites/webapps have a greater
need for compatibility than desktop apps do.

Again, we're not talking about *websites*.  We're talking about web *apps*.
 Of course your bank site ought to provide you your account info whether you
are on a Mac or Windows and even if you use IE 5.5.  But that's not what
we're talking about.  We're talking about someone making an application
that, today or in the past you would have downloaded and installed, and
instead making it runnable in a browser.  It's not content, it's
*behavior*you're there for, and therefore, if they require Chrome and
you are a
devoted Firefox user, then you can find someone else who provides that
behavior in Firefox and use them instead.  There's no tie to some particular
content provided (like Visa), just like there isn't with desktop apps.

Mike

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:

> "David Nadlinger" <see at klickverbot.at> wrote in message
> news:ieb3q0$1nc$1 at digitalmars.com...
> > On 12/15/10 8:04 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> >> Are they in 99.9% of the browsers *actually being used now*?
> >
> > As it was already discussed, this is not as much of an argument as it
> > might seem - Windows x86 isn't used on 99.9% of all machines either.
> >
>
> First of all, the percentage of user machines that are Windows is much much
> higher than the percentage of browsers being used that are bleeding-edge.
>
> Secondly, If someones going to make a non-cross-platform desktop app these
> days, I'd consider that silly too. Maybe less silly, but only because it's
> notably easier to test a page with JS on/off and in multiple browsers than
> to test an app on multiple OSes, and because there is Wine.
>
> Third, it's uncommon to need to use a *specific* non-cross-platform app.
> The
> vast majority of the time there are alternates available. But it's not
> uncommon at all for a website to not have an alternate equivalent. Trying
> to
> make an online payment to Visa or check on one of Visa's policies? Are you
> gonna be able to do that at MasterCard's website? With desktop software
> stuff like that rarely happens. Basically, websites/webapps have a greater
> need for compatibility than desktop apps do.
>
>
>
>
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