Comments for spinnakersystems.com http://spinnakersystems.com/blog spinnaker systems blog for web development Sat, 25 May 2013 22:36:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 Comment on CSS and associated tunes by Lee http://spinnakersystems.com/blog/?p=5#comment-8 Lee Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:43:24 +0000 http://spinnakersystems.com/blog/?p=5#comment-8 I agree completely and am looking forward to IE7 to see if the support for CSS is any better. As you so rightly say - its IE that is the big sticking point, and with approximately 80% of all web traffic coming from IE that is one hell of a sticking point. Even when IE7 is released then there is atill going to be a significant proportion of the browsing public using previous versions of IE so the issue won't go away. Somehow I doubt that IE7 is going to address the issue anyway - Microsoft does tend to take a very arrogant 'its our way or the highway' approach to many things, and I don't see that changing. I'm sure Microsoft doesn't see it that way, but I stand to be corrected. I agree completely and am looking forward to IE7 to see if the support for CSS is any better. As you so rightly say - its IE that is the big sticking point, and with approximately 80% of all web traffic coming from IE that is one hell of a sticking point. Even when IE7 is released then there is atill going to be a significant proportion of the browsing public using previous versions of IE so the issue won’t go away.

Somehow I doubt that IE7 is going to address the issue anyway - Microsoft does tend to take a very arrogant ‘its our way or the highway’ approach to many things, and I don’t see that changing. I’m sure Microsoft doesn’t see it that way, but I stand to be corrected.

]]> Comment on CSS and associated tunes by Mike http://spinnakersystems.com/blog/?p=5#comment-7 Mike Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:09:41 +0000 http://spinnakersystems.com/blog/?p=5#comment-7 For many people, the use of CSS/table-based hybrid development may be the way to go right now. I've been using CSS-driven, tableless layouts at work and on my own personal sites with great success. Cross-browser compatibility is still an issue, but an issue that grows less and less of a worry every day as users continue to upgrade from older verion 4 and 5 browsers. IE is still the biggest sticking point. As <a nref="http://www.mrichard.net/mt/archives/microsoft_continues_to_refuse_to_fully_support_web_standards.php">I recently noted on my own blog</a>, Microsoft continues to feel the need to develop its own set of proprietary standards and rules for how the web should look and act, even when the technology for CSS is here and we know it works. It's MS's own terrible support of the technology that has been a huge detriment to the growth of CSS and its full acceptance in the web community. Rest assured, CSS is here to stay. It's simply a matter now of whether Microsoft will continue to thumb its nose at the web designers and developers of the world by refusing to adopt that standards-based technology which the web community has been clamoring for the loudest in the past few years. For many people, the use of CSS/table-based hybrid development may be the way to go right now. I’ve been using CSS-driven, tableless layouts at work and on my own personal sites with great success. Cross-browser compatibility is still an issue, but an issue that grows less and less of a worry every day as users continue to upgrade from older verion 4 and 5 browsers. IE is still the biggest sticking point. As I recently noted on my own blog, Microsoft continues to feel the need to develop its own set of proprietary standards and rules for how the web should look and act, even when the technology for CSS is here and we know it works. It’s MS’s own terrible support of the technology that has been a huge detriment to the growth of CSS and its full acceptance in the web community. Rest assured, CSS is here to stay. It’s simply a matter now of whether Microsoft will continue to thumb its nose at the web designers and developers of the world by refusing to adopt that standards-based technology which the web community has been clamoring for the loudest in the past few years.

]]> Comment on Rip offs by John http://spinnakersystems.com/blog/?p=4#comment-2 John Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:07:24 +0000 http://spinnakersystems.com/blog/?p=4#comment-2 Its a tough market out there and anything goes.... I've run across such companies, and they have the marketing down pat, but there are so many hands in the pot that any site is expensive. Trouble is, competing against them is tough as they can show literally thousands of sites developed and maintained. Its a tough market out there and anything goes….

I’ve run across such companies, and they have the marketing down pat, but there are so many hands in the pot that any site is expensive. Trouble is, competing against them is tough as they can show literally thousands of sites developed and maintained.

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