Comments | shoan: Firefox and corporate websites

shoan

Firefox and corporate websites

Feb 16, 2005 17:00

This afternoon, I was talking to the director of a mid-sized software firm in the city. In the course of our conversation, I mentioned to him that his company's website was not firefox compatible. For the first time, I heard some one say that it was intended to be viewable for IE only. His argument was that nobody has complained so far, so why fix ( Read more... )

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bluesmoon February 16 2005, 13:36:09 UTC

You have to talk money. Show them that it's cheaper to make a site for Firefox and then customise it for IE.

shoan February 16 2005, 14:52:21 UTC

I think his reasoning was something similiar. He wanted to know why he needed to take the overhead of spending time(read money) to make the website firefox compatible. He reasoned that if it were a shopping cart application, he would ensure X-browser compatibility, but for a corporate website it wasn't necessary.

IMO, if a potential customer looked at my corporate website using Safari on his Mac and the layout screwed up, he wouldn't really get the best impression. OTOH, if it were standard compliant, with the links to validators at the bottom of each page, he could make some assumptions about the quality of work that he will get.

pmanoj007 February 16 2005, 16:20:40 UTC

For the first time, I heard some one say that it was intended to be viewable for IE only

Actually there are still some sites that say its intended for IE only.

We track browser stats too for our users who use various browsers and IE is still way high up(97% or so). I dont think companies will abandon IE.

But you are right, people dont understand the need for standards.

ma7ur February 16 2005, 16:32:47 UTC

well I'm doin my final sem prj n it involves writin gui in HTML n server-side JSP.

i downloaded firefox on the workstation n beegan coding, wen this guy walks upto me n scolds me 4 tamperin with IE settings!

wat settings? baap wen will ppl realise that its fun,easy n less thatn 5MB!

teemus February 16 2005, 19:04:31 UTC

wen this guy walks upto me n scolds me 4 tamperin with IE settings!
Next time you see him, give him a kick on his balls. Or sent him to my office, and I'll kick his balls.

ma7ur February 17 2005, 03:11:51 UTC

kya kare hard 2 chng ppl esp in govt offices!

shoan February 17 2005, 06:11:32 UTC

Not really. You need to show them how much safer firefox is as compared to IE.

I used IE just once last week after very long time. Before I knew it, tonnes of spyware software got installed and eat up most of my bandwidth. Never had any of these problems with firefox.

So thats what needs to shown to them.

kingsly February 17 2005, 07:12:04 UTC

Didn't your momma tell you not to visit those websites! ;-)

ma7ur February 17 2005, 15:44:31 UTC

I know. We have toolbars, dialers n a lot of stuff on our boxes but they refuse 2 accept the fact. Wen pointed out he blames me 4 wastin office bandwidth n downloadin crap!

*shakes head*