Re: The Best Browser for Vista

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:30:37 -0400, ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <8vadu35i3j2rdbm7m9bd1dmm463ujlolh0@xxxxxxx>,
Mayor of R'lyeh <mayor.of.rlyeh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:49:27 -0500, "Hasta La Vista"
<noemail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is a poor substitute for having a standard-compliant browser
that can render the web properly!

I don't have any problem with IE rendering the Web properly.

The thing that he's missing is that no one cares if its standards
compliant.

The fact that a browser with such poor standards compliance dominates
the market has significant costs to consumers.

Not really.

It results in developers wasting time on IE compatibility that could be spent making web sites
better.

The problem is the developers don't recognize their proper role. The
users aren't there to serve the developers. Its the other way around.

The problem, of course, is that this cost is paid by users of
all browsers, not just IE, so from the standpoint of an *individual*
user it doesn't provide any disincentive to use IE.

(This is actually a rather neat example of one of the more common ways a
free market can malfunction.)

Actually its a neat example of the arrogance of geekdom. If most of
your users have chosen one thing that's the standard you should be
using whether you like it or not.
Applying your thinking to other situations shows just how silly your
position is. If you ran a store where 90% of your customers wanted
peaches but you didn't like peaches so you sold strawberries instead
even though hardly anyone bought them you'd be out of business soon.
Standing at the door and railing that no one buying your strawbeeries
is a sign of market failure and a sign that your shoppers are clueless
would just serve to highlight your mental instability and arrogance
instead of saying anything meaningful, or even true, about your
shoppers.



[snip]
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Why settle for the lesser evil?
Cthulhu for president 2008.
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