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I'm just mad about saffron Saffron's mad about me. On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:46:34 -0800 (PST), "James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: > To reiterate: > > Coding for "Any Browser" doesn't mean "coding in vanilla HTML" (and has > anybody ever noticed that vanilla is second only to saffron in cost, > being > worth several times its weight in gold? Or how versatile a spice it is?) > It simply means coding pages to degrade gracefully, rather than fail > miserably. Neither would I consider Netscape 4.x to be irrelevant. Nor > Netscape 3.x. Nor Lynx. > > Yes, failing to include support for "slick new features" might make a web > site less attractive to users. But so do things like entry-point pages > that take 5 minutes to load on a fast dialup, and half an hour (if ever) > on a slow one. Or music, or animations, that users can't get rid of. Or > JavaScript or CSS calls coded in such a way that Netscape 4 just curls up > its toes and cries "Heeelllllppp meeeeeeee!" unless the user disables CSS > and/or JS. > > This whole business of declaring whole classes of users "irrelevant" > because of their choice of hardware, browser, or line speed, reminds me > of > a catchphrase: "You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." > > -- > James H. H. Lampert > Professional Dilettante > http://www.hb.quik.com/jamesl > http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign > > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing > list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > -- michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail
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