RE: FLASH: Browser types

[Les Mizzell]

> May I ask a silly question?

> Isn't it really "our" job to see that the world utilizes the current plugs

> and browsers? "Our" being the "developers"?

> May I ask a silly question?

> Isn't it really "our" job to see that the world utilizes the current plugs

> and browsers?


Would seem that way, but this depends on who's paying your bills.


My main client has one office with over 200 PCs, all running I.E. 3.0 with

Java disabled!! They **REFUSE** to change any configurations because "it

took us forever to get this system stable and we're NOT changing anything."


Represents a major challenge on my part to make things work the way they

want.


They wanted a search function attached to a database with over 50,000 zip

code/location entries in it.  Found a great way to do it with about 35 lines

of PERL code.  Guess what? "PERL???  Oh no, we're not putting PERL on our

server, sorry."


Took a ASP page with VBScripting with over 300 lines of stupid code to do

the same thing, and what I could have done in one afternoon with PERL took

several days instead.


Plugins?  Forget it!


I would love to force these folks to upgrade, but it won't happen.  Site

stats on many of my sites tell me that I've still got a bunch of Netscape

2.x users out there.  To be honest, the ONLY way I see that the browsing

hordes stay current would have been to have "time-outs" installed in the

browsing software itself that would FORCE an upgrade, like it or not.


All in all, most clients want me to design for the lowest common

denominator, and having to design several versions of everything is a pain

in the butt, but at the same time I'm getting paid by the hour, so I can't

complain too much.

mizzellmsn [dot] com (mailto:mizzellmsn [dot] com)

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