"there is business value to usable apps" didn't fit into the tone of your post, so I hope you can forgive a bit of unintentional creative interpretation (one word). I made no attempt to play tricks.
The rest of the post was simply a point-by-point dissection. None of your other points are valid. The only somewhat valid argument I hear against proper browser compatibility is "we don't have time", which is usually a self-inflicted wound.
Stable web pages that gracefully degrade are fully possible, even today. I wrote a unit test that degrades in IE 5 this week.
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"there is business value to usable apps" didn't fit into the tone of your post, so I hope you can forgive a bit of unintentional creative interpretation (one word). I made no attempt to play tricks.
The rest of the post was simply a point-by-point dissection. None of your other points are valid. The only somewhat valid argument I hear against proper browser compatibility is "we don't have time", which is usually a self-inflicted wound.
Stable web pages that gracefully degrade are fully possible, even today. I wrote a unit test that degrades in IE 5 this week.
> I wrote a unit test that degrades in IE 5 this week.
I hope the 0.02% of your users who benefited from that, are very happy.