show me the standards
Joel Spolsky creates software in New York, is an author, writes a frequent blog and is an overall smart guy - I read him a lot because I almost always learn something - even though I may not always agree with him.
He’s recently written about website standards - and that’s a topic near and dear to my heart - not because I’m a coder, but because I manage our web team here at NPower Seattle - and I know how frustrating it can be for my coders to deliver a website that looks just like the design in IE 6, IE 7, Firefox, and maybe a handful of additional browsers, too. And how frustrating it is to our customers when their websites “break” - they looked great in Firefox, but not so great in IE 7.
Joel’s recent article is well worth a read - it’s a little techie, but not overly so - and it’s funny. He uses headphones, Martians, and politics to talk about some of the reasons why trying to solve this problem is hard.
And maybe that’s the key lesson: Solving browser compatiblility is hard.
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