Netscape's DevEdge has part 2 of the interview with Mike Davidson of ESPN.com. The interview touches on some of the decisions made, code choices, limitations, and validation. A quote:
After our relaunch, I read a post on a blog from someone who made the argument to his company that "supporting Netscape 4 posed a business risk" and shouldn't be opted for because the upside was not worth the risk. That's definitely a profound concept worth using if you're trying to justify a standards-based redesign at your company. The "business risk" is that you're creating code which is not forward-compatible, not repurposable, and not modular enough to scale to different media. The "lack of upside" refers to the fact that you may only be alienating such a small percentage of your audience, most of which can upgrade if they want to.
Posted by Karl
April 2, 2003 02:47 PM