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Re: Strange blog-comment URL 'mechanism'?

From The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.networking, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Strange blog-comment URL 'mechanism'?
Date 2011-11-29 00:36 +0000
Organization albasani.net
Message-ID <jb19dq$dc6$3@news.albasani.net> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <jb0964$91k$1@dont-email.me> <3JKdnR_Vd-_AJk7TnZ2dnUVZ8uednZ2d@supernews.com> <jb0o3r0gav@news2.newsguy.com> <2ImdnRrr-5AJmknTnZ2dnUVZ8nGdnZ2d@supernews.com> <2ImdnRXr-5BKl0nTnZ2dnUVZ8nGdnZ2d@supernews.com>

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Deux wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:13:40 -0600, Deux wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:40:43 -0500, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>>
>>> I solved that. If a page does not render, I give up on that site. I buy
>>> whatever it is from another vendor, or do not buy it at all. So it
>>> costs them not to support my browser (Firefox). They may not know they
>>> lost a sale because of their browser arrogance, but it costs them
>>> nonetheless.
>> Try factoring in the cost of extra development work needed, such as
>> planning, build, testing, maintenance. How much revenue would they make
>> from Lynx users?
>>
>> Their browser arrogance would probably save them money.
> 
> I just noticed you said your browser is Firefox. Because of the large 
> market share it would cost a business money and would be foolish not
> to support this popular browser.
> 
> My last posts really apply to every browser apart from IE and Firefox 
> (maybe Safari as well).

Those are the three you MIUST support back down to IE6 if you can. But 
Chrome is now pretty mandatory as well. Also a lot of p[people are now 
hooking in on small screen 'apps' on mobile kit..so it pays not to 
assume a thousand plus pixel screen.

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Strange blog-comment URL 'mechanism'? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-11-28 07:11 +0000
  Re: Strange blog-comment URL 'mechanism'? Krzysztof Mitko <fakemail@krzysztof.at.eml.dot.cc> - 2011-11-28 08:04 +0000
    Re: Strange blog-comment URL 'mechanism'? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-11-28 15:25 +0000
      Re: Strange blog-comment URL 'mechanism'? Deux <deux@none.none> - 2011-11-28 10:48 -0600
        Re: Strange blog-comment URL 'mechanism'? Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2011-11-28 14:40 -0500
          Re: Strange blog-comment URL 'mechanism'? Deux <deux@none.none> - 2011-11-28 16:13 -0600
            Re: Strange blog-comment URL 'mechanism'? Deux <deux@none.none> - 2011-11-28 16:27 -0600
              Re: Strange blog-comment URL 'mechanism'? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-29 00:36 +0000
            Re: Strange blog-comment URL 'mechanism'? Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2011-11-30 09:24 -0500
              Re: Strange blog-comment URL 'mechanism'? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-30 14:37 +0000
          Re: Strange blog-comment URL 'mechanism'? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-29 00:34 +0000
        Re: Strange blog-comment URL 'mechanism'? Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2011-11-28 17:50 -0500
        Re: Strange blog-comment URL 'mechanism'? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2011-11-29 08:23 +0200
          Re (2): Strange blog-comment URL 'mechanism'? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-12-01 13:25 +0000
      Re: Strange blog-comment URL 'mechanism'? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-29 00:32 +0000

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