Re: FLASH: OT: IE 5.5 Beta-- Man its fast.

[Wayne Townsend]

>John Brzys wrote:

>

> > I just think Microsoft does not care if their browser works on a Mac OS or

> > not.

> > I keep asking the Microsoft people when I can expect IE 5 for the mac and

> > they just ignore me like they have better things to do than worry about

> > Macintosh users. And I don't blame them a bit.

>

>You can't blame them.  If you are going to sell a product in your town

>with the hope of being successful at it, would you target it to 100

>people who might buy it... or 100,000. I know which way I'd go.


Rick, I just can't let that one slide...  ;)


That's an old, tired, questionable, sales argument that is invalid to 

web developers.  There are millions of these machines out there 

surfing our websites.  A large audience to be sure.  The *percentage* 

argument is irrelevant, because a very large number of PC are not 

connected to the internet, whereas the Macs, being percieved by many 

as consumer machines are more likely to be.  And a large number of 

the PCs out there today are inadequate to run our flash stuff anyway, 

lacking in horsepower and memory if they're even connected in the 

first place.


I doubt anybody has any reliable relevant platform statistics, but 

who cares; we're building websites, not selling software boxes.


By producing a buggy browser for an audience that large, microsoft is 

hurting web developers like us.  It's not a "favorite platform" issue 

at all.  If MS can't produce a working browser for both platforms at 

the same time, then they don't deserve the market share.


Flash developers have the power these days.  We're on top of the 

game.  We should let it be known that this situation is intolerable. 

Flash developers are building the hot stuff these days.  That's a 

*big* stick.  We should use it.


I pass the soapbox.  ;)


/wayne


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