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Re: Build for the bugs?

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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Feb 21, 2015 3:40AM

" My question is... Should we be coding for the browser / AT or for the
spec?"

In a perfect world, UA would conform to specs, developers would code to
specs, and users would know how to use things in the one built by the other.
In reality we have to cope with circumstances that are less than perfect in
all three cases.

The decision whether to code for one or another comes down to what you're
building, who you're building it for, and what it needs to be supported by.
There isn't a simple answer to that unfortunately, although JF's "yes" does
sort of sum up the situation!

Léonie.

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