http://www.natarem.com/2008/03/07/website-success-part-four/ You met me at a very strange time in my life. Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:52:38 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.natarem.com/2008/03/07/website-success-part-four/comment-page-1/#comment-3924 Eric Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:56:15 +0000 http://www.natarem.com/2008/03/07/website-success-part-four/#comment-3924 I think another reason for Firefox's success has to do with a point you mentioned earlier, self-interest and specifically self-interest for people who make websites. IE doesn't recognize web standards (they will now, but they haven't in the past), which means web pages won't always display how the designer intended even if they are coded correctly. Web designers are perfectionists and they want their designs to look perfect. While most good designers hack the code so it works in IE, they also passionately badmouth the browser in public hoping 98% of the market will stop using it. They put banners on their website and install it on every computer that isn't running it, They will even go so far as to make people feel uncomfortable when their default browser is set to IE. For web designers, the more people using Firefox, the better. Less coding and testing -- plus it means their designs look perfect every time. I think another reason for Firefox’s success has to do with a point you mentioned earlier, self-interest and specifically self-interest for people who make websites. IE doesn’t recognize web standards (they will now, but they haven’t in the past), which means web pages won’t always display how the designer intended even if they are coded correctly. Web designers are perfectionists and they want their designs to look perfect. While most good designers hack the code so it works in IE, they also passionately badmouth the browser in public hoping 98% of the market will stop using it. They put banners on their website and install it on every computer that isn’t running it, They will even go so far as to make people feel uncomfortable when their default browser is set to IE. For web designers, the more people using Firefox, the better. Less coding and testing — plus it means their designs look perfect every time.

]]> http://www.natarem.com/2008/03/07/website-success-part-four/comment-page-1/#comment-3920 Wpalango Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:44:39 +0000 http://www.natarem.com/2008/03/07/website-success-part-four/#comment-3920 very insightful, love the blog, love the 4 part post about creating/cultivating ideas. keep her up WP. very insightful, love the blog, love the 4 part post about creating/cultivating ideas.
keep her up
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