2006-09-13 Ramblings
Wednesday, September 13, 2006# Why are there no websites showing streaming live video from webcams strapped to pets?
# Universes colide: a band called CSS sings a song called ' Alala ' - an online magazine called ALA sings about CSS . Interesting, no?
# I often see the big cannon approach to web development from big companies. For example, IBM, making a web interface for their Lotus Notes email product, create seperate javascript and CSS for each supported browser. This makes the product complex and makes browser support slow. We've had to wait a long time and through several versions before they announced Firefox support even though Netscape support was already done.
Remember that tired old chestnut? "We can't make it cross-browser because that would be twice as much work"
Even a quick glance across the web will show many examples of a simpler, standards based approach that creates cross-browser compatibility from a single codebase. So why this big cannon approach? I think it's simply because they can. They have the resources to add as many devlopers to the project as needed. They are used to going the 'throw money at the problem' route, so they do.
# Speak of the devil, link love from Big Blue itself!
# Actually, I have received a lot of that for the validation thing . Who'd have thought something trivial like validation would generate so much interest. Just goes to show that no problem is ever solved. There's always another approach available. I think that means no one should ever stop writing new javascript. Even if the problem you are solving has been approached many times before, your approach may be the next new thing that solves it in such a way that a bunch of people will appreciate.
I guess that also means there are an infinite number of perspectives to a problem or that a problem is not a static concept; it has as many facets as people who experience it.
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