Quotes: >Such people don't have huge amounts of time--and probably don't have the >knowledge--to mess around with tekkie things like downloading a new >browser and spending hours delicately adjusting it so that it actually >works.
I leave it you to explain to the "young couple in rural Virginia who are just getting their bed-and-breakfast off the ground" why some people can't view their beautiful, 100%-correctly-coded web page and how they have to code a Holly Hack to fix it. Do it quick because their B&B web site is failing to attract the business they need. My point is: it's not fair--to say the least--to expect everybody else to keep accommodating to crappy work by Microsoft. Other than that, I don't owe any explanation to anybody on why Microsoft products don't work. Presumably, the author of the template for the hypothetical small business's website has done all the requisite hacks already so that their website will work with the more common forms of IE. Templates may be déclassé, but that's what a small business like a Bed & Breakfast would typically use, and some of them are quite good, cheap or free, and relatively user-friendly. I'd advise the young couple to keep updating their website templates--that's about all they can do (and probably all they can afford). For the rest of us, use Firefox or any of the other relatively decent browsers out there, and tell your friends to do the same. And for Microsoft: the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine. --Constance Warner *********************************************************** ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
