To compare or not to compare: that is the question :)

The saints in traditional Islam have always advised not to organize multiple marriages at the same time even if they be sisters, lest the brides be compared with one another. But can we ordinary mortals really resist the temptation...? I am talking about comparisons of course :-) . Especially for people of our background who churn on cold statistics and treat them with the same nonchalance we treat our morning coffee with. All these thoughts were going around in my mind as I downloaded Safari, FireFox and Chrome (not in this particular order of course:-)) . Apart from the usual "proprietary vs open source" debates we have gotten used to , usability and performance are the most aptly talked about areas when we choose sides in the software arena. I will share my experiences later on as we get knee deep into our current assignments. One of the biggest challenges which got unearthed on the very first meeting we had was about the testing strategy. Come to think of it, how do you test a really vast and rich user interface and be damn sure you covered all the scenarios? Now , we don't really have an army out here ready to find bugs in multi browser compliance... Maybe we need to take probability into perspective here. Like the probability to find a bug in a particular scenario is inversely proportional to the number of browsers it has already been tested on. Hmm, not bad but you really cant rub this on your managers...they know ..eh.. best(sounds politically correct which I have to be over here :] ). Anyway, will keep you posted in this multi browser saga and till then , bubye!!!

Welcome!!!

Hi and welcome . Just to get the ball rolling , I will start with the events which led to the start of this blog. Before that , a small introduction of the authors on this blog. We are software developers with a rich experience of front end web development who are currently in the process of making our core product multi browser compliant. From my experience of developing rich internet applications , most web based products developed on Windows platforms are primarily developed, tested and delivered using the Internet Explorer browser. Call it ease of use (you dont need to specifically install it ) , the IE fame and popularity wave or simply in some cases, fate(it was meant to be :-)). Now since we live in the internet age(an outdated term, i agree) and with the plethora of software applications we see being launched at such a fast pace , we really can't even influence ,forget about controlling what our users install/deploy on their systems. Funny that you understand this fact after a few releases :-> . It wouldn't be fair to demean the most used browser in the world but we humans mostly contemplate the grass being greener on the other side of the fence. And to add to that, we introvert developers are always being hypnotized with the "customer is always right " cliches from the sales guys. And so , we start with our tryst with the famous browsers of the times !!! I will keep you posted as we try to fight the demons of resisting change and exploring what really makes these browsers tick. Hmm, sounds exciting!!!

For Multibrowser support

Hi,

here is the link which will help us to enrich our goal.

http://www.quirksmode.org