Browser standards was Re: field validation (was Re: COBOL/DB2 Date edit question)

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:10:23 -0600, Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net>
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>On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:06:46 +1200, "Pete Dashwood"
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>Ahh, blame the (non) customer.
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>But check around.   Lots of people are  because web sites want us
>to use Windows, I.E., and active-X.    I am reporting facts that I
>have observed on newsgroups, and have observed in my workplace.
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>If a company doesn't mind prospective customers being  and not
>being able to use their sites - it doesn't matter whether the fault is
>those prospective customers' failure to conform to Microsoft's failure
>to conform.    They won't be customers.
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>In fact, they will be anti-customers - sharing their anger with
>others.
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>Now companies are free to decide that IE is the de facto standard, and
>those using de jure standard browsers aren't worthwhile.   That is
>their right.    But designing around de jure standards isn't that
>expensive and is more inclusive.   That's worth money.   (It may be
>that you can't use MS designed tools though).

Just to add fuel to the fire, if your web-site is commercial or
government, in some countries including the United States the site is
required to be able to handle a person who has one of the following
disabilities: vision, hearing, motion (unable to use a mouse, has no
hands, etc.).  The site does not have to be able to handle someone
like the late Helen Keller who was both blind and deaf.

On 16 Aug, 17:17, Clark F Morris <cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> Just to add fuel to the fire, if your web-site is commercial or
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Which part of BLIND does not encompass VISION?

Blind people are able to use one of a number of audio browsers but
that wouldn't help Helen Keller. However, there is a screen reader
which converts text to Braille available. How it would manage with
Pete's fluff and eye-candy is anyones guess.