A number of sites have commented on ESPN.com recent standards-based redesign. One of these sites is What Do I Know. The feedback is worth reading, if only for the comments that users have posted on that page. It turns out that Apple's new Safari browser is the fastest when rendering ESPN.com. Some posters took issue with the developers "wasting" time making the site work with Safari. Mike Davidson, one of the ESPN developers, responded:
Care to guess how much money we spent for QA to make sure our site worked in Safari? If you guessed $0.00, you are correct.How about our QA budget to make sure it worked great in Mozilla, Chimera, and Netscape 7? Also $0.00. I think you’re missing the reason why people are so excited about Safari. *It just works*. It really does. When you write standards-compliant code, you have a pretty good idea what your pages will look like in every standards-compliant browser before you even test them. Safari just plain works, and there’s nothing on our site which you are missing because you decide to use it.
Posted by Karl
February 26, 2003 08:37 AM