psyklone
05-09-2001, 07:18 PM
it's common knowledge in the web development world that ie and netscape (not to mention other widely used browsers) handle code differently. for major sites you'll want to either a.) test the code with multiple browsers to ensure compatibility before you put it in production and/or b.) create 'site mirrors' for different browsers so that a script that loads in the initial index page will direct the browsing client to the series of pages or 'mirror' that is best suited for that browser. as for whether or not the web developers charge extra for putting together a mirror that is tweaked for netscape ... they should. it will take a fair amount of code alteration as well as large chunks of new code to accomplish some of the same tasks. look at it this way, although the general public will only see one site when they hit up your domain ... the developers will essentially have to write two separate sites and tie them together.
that's probably not what you wanted to hear, but hopefully that will help you understand why they're wanting to charge more. just so you know, some clients that i do sites for request that pages be optimized so that clients browsing with different resolutions will pull up pages that are optimized for their resolution. i do this using cascading style sheets which makes it a bit simpler, but they still get charged by the hour for the coding and by the page for the html content.
cheers,
psyklone
that's probably not what you wanted to hear, but hopefully that will help you understand why they're wanting to charge more. just so you know, some clients that i do sites for request that pages be optimized so that clients browsing with different resolutions will pull up pages that are optimized for their resolution. i do this using cascading style sheets which makes it a bit simpler, but they still get charged by the hour for the coding and by the page for the html content.
cheers,
psyklone