On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 07:51:36 -0700 Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The last paragraph is indicative of the masses: "I am not interested in > telling web designers ~." Simply multiply that by your local census, > and soon it becomes apparent how horrible problems begin. > > I *do* take the time to post notes to webmins when I hit a site I can > not access without forking over money to M$. I don't have M$ on my box, > and I am going to keep it that way, but I still want to access the info > I am seeking. I don't think that it is asking too much. > > Apologies if I seem condescending, I don't mean to be. Not at all. No offence taken. I am not a programmer. I am an end user. At work I use Windows and can access almost every web site going. At home I have problem after problem *for whatever reason*. I share my house with a friend and he often uses my computer - it is very hard trying to explain why we are using Linux when he cannot access so may web pages. He is certainly not interested in the slightest what a web designer uses to create his/her web site - he just wants to access the information on it. If I suggested to him that he contact web designers to complain about their web sites he would think I was an idiot - 'I can access them using Windows, so what's the problem?' would be his retort. If you wish not to access sites written poorly, or using MS code, then you are free to make that choice. Let's have a web browser which accesses all web sites and I can have my choice too. The point I am trying to make is that if a large percentage of the world is using MS IE-specific code in spite of the best efforts of yourself and others, it is surely far easier for Linux programmers to change whatever is needed in Mozilla, Galeon et al. so that these pages can be accessed than to change the habits of the web-designers around the world. Whether we like it or not certain methods or techniques become the norm due to sheer weight of numbers using them. This is the way of the world. The best methods do not necessarily win through - the Video2000/Betamax/VHS issue immediately springs to mind where the poorest quality format won the battle. I do agree with you in principle, but in practice it is not you or me who decides what people use to design web-sites. Take care. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL AND NEWS / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
