Re: IBM Web support

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
> 
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