On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 14:41:10 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Arachne does not need a ShockWave interpreter. While ShockWave may provide
> interesting entertainment for kids, very few of us Arachne users would
> appreciate it.
Look at my letter more carfully: I was not asking a shockwave
plug in. I was asking for a Shockwave interpreter. The diffrance
is that an interpreter would just extract the URLs that are included in
the SWF file, so that we can get into sites that are using shockwave
without including an HTML version of their site.
And besides - I dont like shockwave as well, but its a known fact
that Shockwave is popular and would very possibly remain popular until
something similiar with even more features replace it. So a "real
support" would be needed in the close future.
Same thing with frames and javascript: I cant stand that stuff.
Its big, its used where it shouldnt be instead of where it should be.
Frames waste screen space and memory. javascript and pop-up windows
are some of the most annoying things i've encountered latly. But
you have to be able to use those things in order to access an
unfortunatly growing number of sites.
There are two ways to deal with it: Give up and not enter those sites
which use these "technologies", or "return a fight" by making it possible
to get in there. Ofcourse, a nice complaint letter might also help,
though todays' web-masters rarly bother to listen for those. After all,
I dont know who they are desiging their sites for, but obviously its
not for the users.
(A good example: a popular corp in here got a site. It was -horribly-
done. So after several failed attempts to use it both with Netscape,
Arachne, and even communicator, I decided its time for a complaint.
Unfortunatly, I searched the entire site, and no webmaster address.
I tried the normal webmaster@host and root@host, nada. Wrong Address
Error. I called the company, and they refused to give me the webmaster
address claiming its a secret. When I asked "so to who am I seposed
to turn to if I am a user of your site and got a complaint?"
they said: "We dont know. Its not our area.". And thats where it ended.)
Or Botton
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