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- mcfly0
hey, hey....
look, instanook/sparker.
We DIDN'T just design for one user, that's silly. the site works on PC/MAC--IE/NN/AOL/Safari. We're talking about 95% of viewers.
Programmers tend to look at things in absolutes in my expereince (as do IAs). In a lot of cases, that's a great thing, and very helpful for designers who don't think that way. I happen to keep compatibility in mind quite a bit. I've been designing since NN 2.0, and remember crunching pages down to 40K max.
However one size fits all for EVERYTHING is not always desirable IMHO, and for an indie-film site that is supposed to be unusual, taking an unusual approach seemed like a good thing. Specializing and catering to broad user groups (not 1 person) seems appropriate at times.
Designing for 100% compliancy is not quite possible, but is 95% a good goal? Sure--for a lot of sites it makes sense. In this case it didn't.
If anyone on a PC/Mac with a reasonably current browser had said the popup doesn't work, script is busted, etc, then THAT'S a very good reason to reconsider the approach and be more inclusive. But .0001% of the surfing public crusies around in a Linux or Unix box. I was willing to exclude those people.