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Originally Posted by DavidJames What part of "don't start" was the complex bit then?  |
I think it was the bit that said "you must obey all my commands" that I must have missed. Who died and made you cult-leader anyway?
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TT doesn't want to know this stuff, she wants a simple list she can give to her dumbo bosses, which has some vague justification in real life, and which she won't get blamed for when it goes pear-shaped.
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In which case, for the environment I deal with, I'd check it works on the latest version of IE on Windows XP, and on the Java implementation you get with Firefox. I certainly see enough Java applets that crash Firefox to feel it unwise not to at least check that case. Problem is, I don't know her circumstances well enough to say if there are any other important cases.
Personally I'm of the "tell them it's a dumb question, or try to find a sensible answer" school of thought, rather than the "it's a dumb question, it deserves a dumb answer", especially when said dumb answer usually bites you a year later when they say "
YOU told us it works on any J2EE platform".
In practical terms, at some point you probably have to say, "actually, we can't guarantee this works unless you use
{list of tested stuff}". It's prohibitively expensive to deal with all the possible cases.