[Chester LUG] Is this what Linux is up against?

[Michael Crilly]

This boils down to poor web development and a "in the moment" mind set, instead of looking to the future. It's common these days, with people developing web based applications to target an OS and or browser.

Sadly, with the influx of poor developers from various underdeveloped nations, who just slap something together, you're going to find poor quality applications all over the place and more commonly, too. 

Roll on HTML5. 

Michael Crilly
Linux Engineer

On 13 Mar 2012, at 17:03, "mark_kh at tiscali.co.uk" <mark_kh at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> Having experienced some trouble viewing a web site with my current version of 
> Firefox, I sent this company a note, mentioning my Firefox was running on Linux 
> OS.  I suggested they, if they want their web site to be universal, they ought 
> to test it with Linux.  This is their reply.
> 
> 
>> 
>> As much as we would like to 
> have a truly universal offering, due to
>> Linux OS having a market share of 
> below 2%, which would be likely be
>> much lower among Skandia users, it would 
> not make sense from a
>> development point of view to build, test and support.  
> What we are in
>> the process of is completely re-building our Client extranet to 
> be
>> browser impendent, incorporating the latest web standards which should
> 
>> ensure our users have a seamless experience regardless of browser and in
> 
>> theory OS.
>> 
>> Apologies for not being able to accommodate your request 
> currently,
>> however I'm sure as open-source OS gains usage we will review this 
> in
>> the future.
>> 
>> Regards
> 
> 
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