From: "Michael Jansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm not arguing that you can not update one Win9x machine to > show Tamil correctly. I'm arguing that you should not advice > companies to tell a million web users to do that on a broad basis. > You need test coverage, support, etc before doing that.
Luckily, the vast majority of web sites in *any* l;angauge do not get a million hits in a decade, let alone a year, let alone a month, let alone a week, etc. It is wonderful to have a scalable product for the sites that get over a million hits in a single day. Truly. But I do not know of any Tamil sites that are quite there yet (or even in that decade order of magnitude). Do you? > Let's summarize what I have said: > 1 - My original posting on this thread clearly states that you need > to be careful when trying to use Uniscribe on Win9x, because it > is not officially supported there. There would be an official > "Update your Win9x with Uniscribe" service pack if it would be > possible. Maybe there will be someday, though I doubt it. There is, they call it "Internet Explorer". Cool, huh? Lucky its such a popular browser. And its very well supported on Win9x, and I do not see any note that the Uniscribe they place on the Win9x machine is unsupported? > 2 - I have exemplified why including download and installation > instructions for upgrading a Win9x machine with Uniscribe is a > bad idea. Am I wrong? Am I badmouthing anyone? Well, if they are willing to install a browser that will supply the components needed, magical things may happen. > Why are you constantly bringing up the fact that my company > offer a solution that deals with problems on Win9x? Yes, we > do. There are several other solutions from various sources that > do that. I don't consider anyone of them to be perfect (not even > our own), because you do not get reliable Unicode support on > Win9x with them. This is not badmouthing any of these solution > (including installing Uniscribe on Win9x). It's the way it is. I'm not > talking about any of these solutions. In some places, they call this reducto ad absurdum -- the claim that because everything is not supported means that nothing is. I think Godel said it best when talking about his work and he pointed out that just because a system could not be 100% complete and 100% consistent does not mean that it useless. > Giving advice to people that they should go ahead and update > their Win9x machines with Uniscribe is plain unethical. Ok, at this point, as I suffer from flashbacks of an Overingtarianesque complaint about antitrust law. As was the case then, this is the point where I bow out. This thread can go and will go nowhere good. <Signing off> MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/
