When you’re a sale person, and you’re making a sales call, never insult the potential customer by saying “Well, we didn’t test with foo because you’re the only person in the world who uses it!”
In this case foo was Firefox after a vendor’s webapp’s magic javascript didn’t work with it. Yes, IE has the marketshare and is the most important to get working. However, have a better response then “you’re a freaking weirdo,” which is about what he said.
From the Kevin Smith movie Mallrats:
Brodie: Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don’t hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent – I don’t care which one – but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator.
The guy who died at miller park after falling off the escalator was a man, not a child. However, Brodie’s advice still stands. This man did not fear and respect the escalator.
When my daughter is the correct age, she will be taught to fear and respect the escalator.