Re: [newtech-1] Women Entrepreneurs in Tech

From: Nate Westheimer
Sent on: Monday, February 8, 2010 12:55 PM
Here's one vote for allowing me to access in Chrome and Safari. How
the HECK did this get overlooked?!

BUT another vote for LearnVest as a great, women-led startup. Also
look at Solvate's Jule Ruvolo as another great NY startup run by a
woman.

Girls in Tech is an organization which could point you in the right
direction of more people!

N

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Philippa <[address removed]> wrote:
>
> Re: cross-browser compatibility.  Agreed, there's no reason not to comply
> with standards.  And there're seldom good reasons to lock visitors out all
> together, instead of allowing for graceful degradation.
>
> That said, I find browser statistics always keep things in perspective.
> http://www.w3scho...
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> Caroline Waxler wrote:
>>
>> Matt and Eliza-- We're currently working to make it optimized for all
>> browsers.
>> Tony--LearnVest's graphic designers Tiffany and Jon Cowley are amazing.
>> Glad you connected with them.
>> Thanks for your interest in LearnVest. Appreciate the feedback.
>> Caroline
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Anthony Zeoli <[address removed]
>> <mailto:[address removed]>> wrot
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>>    Matt:
>>
>>    You said:
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>>
>>    On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Matt Weinberg <[address removed]
>>    <mailto:[address removed]>> wrote:
>>    I wouldn't work with anybody involved in building learnvest.com
>>    <http://learnvest....; after going to the site in Safari and
>>    Chrome, both of which are just as standards compliant (if not more
>>    so than Firefox).
>>
>>    I said "graphic design," not developers. The designers didn't
>>    develop the site, they just picked the pretty colors, generated
>>    the style guide and left it up to LearnVest to implement.
>>
>>    No idea why LearnVest would choose to forgo standards compliant
>>    cross browser compatibility. I only just saw a screen shot of the
>>    site in a slide presentation on Thursday.
>>
>>    Maybe we can gift them Jeffrey Zeldman's book, "Designing with Web
>>    Standards (2nd Edition)," <http://bit.ly/bp0...; for Christmas
>>    next year?
>>
>>    Yes, if you click on the link to buy, I'll get a few pennies from
>>    Amazon. Might as well get paid something for the referral.
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