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October 07, 2006
JS in November
JS in November: Mozilla Firefox 2 is now in Release Candidate 2 stage, joining Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 in final public compatibility testing. I can't remember the last time we've seen two major browsers arrive so closely together. I'm guessing new sites will be fine, because JavaScript & CSS specialists have been testing their new projects, writing their new frameworks, in these two new browsers for awhile. But what about existing sites, sites which don't have a maintainence budget? With so much of their audience slowly shifting into two different new renderers simultaneously, some sites which have worked well for a long time may start losing functionality. (Although... it would be funny if some of those irritating "IE only" web apps gradually realized they should've demanded "IE6 only" instead. ;-) Commerce sites usually do significant business in December, and they won't start getting general consumer feedback until November... there could be some dicey times up ahead for sites which are rendered directly by the browsers.
Posted by JohnDowdell at October 7, 2006 09:02 AM
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"sites which are rendered directly by the browsers", ahem :)
You can keep telling otherwise, but presenting complete sites in Flash is anti-web. [jd sez: Non sequitur... "Don't eat spinach, because an all-spinach diet is bad."] It might be OK for lots of special purposes, but I notice that for example this blog also is normal HTML. [jd sez: Like I did say, HTML/JS/CSS is good. It's the people who say anything else is bad who are talkin' weird.]
The changes in site-rendering for Firefox are marginal. It is mostly UI and stability work that went into 2.0. The real work on the core web technologies is being done on the development branch that will lead to Firefox 3. [jd sez: I agree that backwards-compatibility is a goal to which we all strive; I asked "What of those older sites which will act differently now?"]
I agree on the sentiment about 'IE only' turning into 'IE 6 only' though :-) [jd sez: Cool, I like finding areas of agreement! :) ]
Posted by: Rijk at October 9, 2006 08:24 AM