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by DanBC 5192 days ago
You need a business case to write standards compliant accessible code that is browser agnostic?

WWW - as envisioned by Berners Lee - is getting worse.

> Berners-Lee identifies universality as one of Web’s key principles, providing people with the freedom to link to anything, regardless of hardware, software, or Internet connection.

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Yes I do.

I pay my rent with money, not with good intentions by some guy who has been granted a nighthood.

That said I assume a fairly standard webpage is rendered decently in Opera so I wouldn't block it (as I would haave done to IE if it had had the market share of opera).

I would say that the responsibility on the developer for that vision to occur is to write standards compliant code. Working around bugs or quirks in a specific browser I think falls into the realm of business case.
"Works in WebKit" isn't necessarily equated to "write standards compliant code". For organisations that manage to develop a website that requires a $100,000 outlay to work in Internet Explorer, that can't possibly be a web standards compliant code base they are starting from.