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Re: Can you believe this? part 2!

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Nov 20, 2006 7:20AM

> Aaaargh! I'm speechless. And cross! Not only does he
> dismiss Firefox and other non-IE users; not only does he
> dismiss the W3C: he completely
> *ignored* the accessibility issue!

Yep. Web development is a lot like software development. The industry is
rife with incompetant developers. Sadly, a lot of customers tolerate it.

You might want to mention to him that if his own site stats show an
'insignificant' amount of Firefox users, it's quite possible it's due to
the fact that their inability to care about it has driven all the
Firefox users away.

Web stats, unfortunately, are used often as self-fulfilling
prophecies...only 5% of our visitors use FF? Well, let's not
bother.--Oh, your site doesn't work in Firefox? I guess I won't bother
visiting.--Oh! Now our site only has 2% FF users...see! We were right!

-Darrel