Re:Attribution of blame. (Score 1)

any organization contracting out such a significant job has a responsibility to exercise some due diligence.

The last two web enabed applications I have done have had no requirements requiring the browser that they be viewable in. I made sure they were viewable in all the browsers, but that was a professional choice.

I have also been involved in projects where we have partnered with an existing software company that had a Windows only solution, ActiveX throughout their "web components", there is basically no discussion about other platforms. I wouldnt be surprised if many of these decision were forced on the company by the vendors.

I dont think there is enough awareness about different platforms for requirements to specify multi platform and multiple browsers. Other than one website that had to be Netscape 4 compliant, I have not seen it explicitly in any requirements.

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