Re:AirBnb's new site design
by mixmastamyk on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @01:31PM
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They can use FF/Chrome if they want to see the site correctly on XP. The faster people stop supporting broken browsers the faster they'll go away! If they can't/don't then they can suffer the trade-off knowingly.
For a successful startup that needs to grow at a reasonable pace (not too quickly) select browser support is one way to apply some light breaking. In five years if/when the business has scaled on its merits, those browsers will be history anyway. That very early (==expensive) developer time would have been wasted when it could have been focused on building a product people want to use.
Think of how Apple slowly removed restrictions to each version of iPhone so that they could handle the interest it generated. They simply couldn't have handled shipping 100 million the first year. So their focus worked out perfectly (despite all the bitching about cut/paste and At&t we had to listen to.) If they had wasted time on "perfection" it would have shipped for years.
For a successful startup that needs to grow at a reasonable pace (not too quickly) select browser support is one way to apply some light breaking. In five years if/when the business has scaled on its merits, those browsers will be history anyway. That very early (==expensive) developer time would have been wasted when it could have been focused on building a product people want to use.
Think of how Apple slowly removed restrictions to each version of iPhone so that they could handle the interest it generated. They simply couldn't have handled shipping 100 million the first year. So their focus worked out perfectly (despite all the bitching about cut/paste and At&t we had to listen to.) If they had wasted time on "perfection" it would have shipped for years.