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October 7, 2006
JS in November
JS in November: Mozilla Firefox 2 is now in Release Candidate 2 stage, joining Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 in final public compatibility testing. I can't remember the last time we've seen two major browsers arrive so closely together. I'm guessing new sites will be fine, because JavaScript & CSS specialists have been testing their new projects, writing their new frameworks, in these two new browsers for awhile. But what about existing sites, sites which don't have a maintainence budget? With so much of their audience slowly shifting into two different new renderers simultaneously, some sites which have worked well for a long time may start losing functionality. (Although... it would be funny if some of those irritating "IE only" web apps gradually realized they should've demanded "IE6 only" instead. ;-) Commerce sites usually do significant business in December, and they won't start getting general consumer feedback until November... there could be some dicey times up ahead for sites which are rendered directly by the browsers.
Posted by JohnDowdell at October 7, 2006 9:02 AM
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