I agree with a lot of what you say, but it's worth thinking about whether or not there are many enterprise applications that really need a UI that is richer than can be provided with basic HTML.
I make web apps for my large company and IE6 is a target platform. My apps have to work even with JavaScript disabled. This means that there are some fairly severe limitations on what I can and cannot do.
However, it turns out that this is probably a good thing (apart from IE's horrible CSS support) because it turns out that users struggle to use applications with complicated interfaces. So I wonder if it's really such a big problem to "dumb down".the UI for enterprise apps...
> […] IE6 is a target platform. My apps have to work even with JavaScript disabled.
Welcome to the ranks of the competent. It's amazing how often users are blamed for the pretty but undiscoverable and shoddy work most web authors do. Progressive enhancement should work indefinitely (regardless of flavor-of-the-month client gimmicks) and isn't even that hard.
I make web apps for my large company and IE6 is a target platform. My apps have to work even with JavaScript disabled. This means that there are some fairly severe limitations on what I can and cannot do.
However, it turns out that this is probably a good thing (apart from IE's horrible CSS support) because it turns out that users struggle to use applications with complicated interfaces. So I wonder if it's really such a big problem to "dumb down".the UI for enterprise apps...