RE: [Dynapi-Dev] Netscape 6 discussion

[Nuno F. <nun...@wi...>]

(sorry Pascal if my quotes take some context out of your answer, that was
not my intention, just a way of not having these emails getting longer...)

	>I mean, we ALL know that 90% (more) is using IE5+ .. so why aren't we
	>participating on it? The webdesign world is just one screwed up world
(maybe
	>the complete software world is?)  We're trying to hang on to old things
just
	>because 10% (less!) are using it?  Marketing people or sales people are
	>probably laughing when they here numbers like that..

Come to think of it, why are we bothering to use DHTML when you can do
"cooler"
stuff in FLASH? 80% of all users (on Mac, Win or otherwise) acessing the web
are using Flash 4+, so why bother?

Still the need is evident for DHTML, because in all the projects that I
helped build
today, from the start my clients didn't want anything to do with Flash, but
want
Layers, animated elements, custom interfaces. Even clients so "trendy" as a
Alternative-dance-music Radio Station...

I don't want to enter into a politics kind of discussion, but just to make a
point
I'll mention that ignoring the minorities, because it's easier and logical,
doesn't
seem a good way to go. After all, dictatorships started on less...
monopolies thrive
on that point of view... And lack of competition is the worst thing that can
happen
to a product, or a technology, or whatever. Believe me, I've felt it and
it's not
a good feeling at all.

	>So DynAPI is a tool that makes it possible to do code that works on older
	>browsers?

Not older browsers, ALL the browsers that my clients ask for. There's a
difference.


	>Because that's exactly what I was saying..are we holding things
	>back because of the support for 4.x ? And could it be more powerfull when
	>supporting 5.x stuff (like IE5's behaviours, or image filters, or NS6's
	>build-in eventlisteners)..

Curiously enough, when I want something done only for IE, usually I use my
code, and
rarely I use DynAPI. Anyway, think about it, there's several DHTML API's out
there,
and the most popular and more developed are the one's that say:
"Cross-Browser" on the
title. What I'm trying to say, is that it's not for developers to dictate
what
the users would want to use, it's the users that determine what we should
develop, don't
you think?

	>(btw. : with this discussion I'm trying to figure out a few things about
	>browser support and possibilities for the DynAPI)

I like discussions :))
I'm liking this one, and at least were discussing something not just saying
stuff
like "I like X because Y is lame!" like so many web-discussions that I
read...

NunoF