The following email from a friend speaks for itself
A bit of background: [redacted]’s Marketing department is about to re-launch the public website. And they chose to create the new version in Sharepoint, so that each department can maintain its own sections. For example, my department handles the Jobs section. Forget whether or not I think this is a good or bad idea, because I have no say in it. So anyway, we’re in the process of building our sections, using the templates provided to us by IS, who built them for Marketing.
So, I just had this phone conversation with the IS guy who’s leading the project:
Me: We’re having some trouble with the templates. The spacing is really off.
Him: It looks fine on my screen. What browser are you using?
Me: IE 6.0.
Him: Oh, well that’s the problem. IE 6 is really different from IE 7.
Me: Yeah, I know. But about 25% of the public is still using it.
Him: Really? Huh.
Me: It doesn’t look good in Firefox, either.
Him: Yeah, Sharepoint never works well in Firefox. This site is designed for IE 7.
Me: ::stunned silence:: Um, only about 25% of web users have IE 7.
Him: Huh. We just built it to meet the requirements Marketing gave us.
Me: Um.. I’d be VERY nervous about releasing a public website that didn’t work in the majority of browsers!
Him: Yeah. Well, I’ll look into it, but that’s probably a development thing and the developer just left on vacation.
And that’s when you would have heard me screaming.
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