On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:49:01 +0200 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 04/09/07 22:17, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > [snip] > >> think of this? I personally find it shocking that a proprietary > >> software product has become a de facto web standard. Surely a > > > > Shocked? Really? What planet are you from? > > > > Uh, excuse me, is this at all relevant: > > A proprietary OS has become the de facto PC standard. I mean what could > you possibly expect? It's called capitalism at it's finest. Don't use > quality to push your product, use brute force. > > Oh wait, did Flash do that? > > I have to say I find the web a much better place without it. Much of > the annoying advertising disappears if you remove flash. OK, you miss > out on some of the funny videos, but why waste the time watching them in > the first place? You could be reading a nice technical manual. > > What bothers me about the modern web is not flash, it is all the sites > that don't know how to format the screen properly, and force my browser > to the resolution that they want rather than the resolution that I want. > > Joe > - -- > Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFGHps9iXBCVWpc5J4RAifZAKCqlg/QPDUR2Je/6PJMqPajYWluNACfVBLv > aWBWsm2mR2gtG3HRg2jO+Hk= > =IiC3 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I see your point, the reason I am shocked is that Flash is not a web standard as such verified by the Web Consortium but has become a de facto standard as people rush to put stupid animations and graphics on their websites. I agree with the Captalism comment to. The reason I use Debian is almost exclusively for ideological reasons. I am on the side of RMS and the FSF in general and Debian is not a commercially produced operating system. The only sad thing is having to use the proprietary ATI drivers and ipw3945. I am not even bothered about 3d acceleration but I couldn't get even the free Radeon 2d driver to work with my laptop.... regards, Ananda Samaddar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
