On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 11:00:38 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
> For those who havent seen it on Slashdot allready:
> http://www.webstandards.org/upgrade/pr.html
> Group of developers is trying to persude the W3C and generaly web authors
> to drop support for anything lower then N6, IE5.5 and Opera 6.
>Yeah what the hell is that giant insect down in the far lower right
>corner? Weird design concept to be sure. But people in general really
>like bells and whistles and do-dads.
>
>It's routine now that many sites that offer just routine information
>like movie show times and food product information are unusable with
>Arachne.
>
>Sam Ewalt
I generally read email offline, since my dialup ISP disconnects after 15 minutes
inactivity, so I haven't been online since reading this. Maybe those developers
are paid by MS? Now I have just been to the above URL, and don't really know
what to believe. Are they trying to bully everybody into buying the latest
Windows and the latest and greatest hardware to support the bloatware? Or are
they simply trying to stop the anarchy among Web browsers and nonstandard
features? Viewing the WWW with acceptable speed shouldn't require a recent
Pentium or Athlon, with at least 64 MB RAM. Maybe Michael Polak has a better
chance to support Javascript if there is an ECMAscript standard? But then MS
will want to add their own features in order to bully users into the latest
dozeware.
But then isn't XML supposed to become the new WWW standard?
I hate bells and whistles and do-dads if they make a Web page take forever to
download. About.com is slow with Arachne, and when an article is in multiple
parts, that means I have to download the fluff redundantly with every part,
while the article is only a small portion of the download size. This is also
true of other fancy commercial Web sites, and makes me a heavy user of Lynx as
the only browser to make acceptable speed. Lynx does not support Javascript,
and I don't think there is any Java support either.
