* Phillip Deackes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > 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*.
So use windows, is that so hard? > 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. *You* want that choice, so *you* go write that web browser. > 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. How do you know, you said you weren't a programmer? ... 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. <FX src="leftenant Worf">But it is not my way.</FX> People use computers to do stuff. If your computer does not do stuff (where stuff = "view certain web pages", for example), why use it? Use the one that does. Dima -- "Mirrors and copulation are abominable because they increase the number of entities." -- corollary to Occam's Razor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
