This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Agile Buzz
by James Robertson.
Original Post: On browser share and engineering
Feed Title: Cincom Smalltalk Blog - Smalltalk with Rants
Feed URL: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/rssBlog/rssBlogView.xml
Feed Description: James Robertson comments on Cincom Smalltalk, the Smalltalk development community, and IT trends and issues in general.
Scoble implicitly makes a useful point to bear in mind when developing a product and/or solution - what is "good enough"
Here's a question for you. Go over to Tim Bray's site where he displays browser share. His readers are all geeks. My mom would never read his site. Now, ask yourself "if geeks won't upgrade to the latest standards-based browsers, why should mom?"
Why bother is the correct answer. If you use Windows, then IE qualifies as "good enough" for the vast majority of users. Why bother changing - there's no compelling reason to. Devlopers really, really need to keep that in mind, because technical merit doesn't tnd to count for much in the face of an 80% solution
Previous Topic
