Addition Through Subtraction
You know, if your feature isn’t going to work right, maybe you shouldn’t use it at all.
Case in point: I received an online computer form, as in a real form and not an Internet form, from my real estate agent because apparently my real estate agent thinks this is a better idea than e-mailing me a PDF. At any rate, if you view the site in IE, it looks like this:
No problem, right? Ossum! Now try it in Firefox, and by “try it,” I mean look in it in Firefox by default because you’re in the tech world and don’t use IE as a browser except to test. Now:
Hey, it’s our old friend NaN.
Do you suppose this application is peeing all over itself because I’m have professional Adobe Acrobat installed on my machine or because it just sux?
Either way, that makes an interesting test case for auto-detection of plugins: What if the user has the professionals’ version installed? What, you don’t think a professional would dare visit your site?
