> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of roger > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 12:43 PM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: RE: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow > > > Another thing to think about on this issue, a lot of > Government agencies depend on Adobe PDF and some even use > Flash. (Can't recall the ones using Flash. Ah, think NASA > uses Flash for the kiddie section?)
And they have a button at the top that says "non-flash version" (the site looks pretty much the same in either version). You don't need Adobe's Reader to view PDFs, there are a ton of open-source pdf readers. > > Also, for an example, NASA uses Windows codecs. > > What good is an O/S if it can't browse the web? > > When somebody in poverty, gets pursued by the IRS and they're > excuse is, "I couldn't afford the money to buy an o/s. So my > free one can't view your website." > > I'm just throwing some lame excuses out here without good > examples of website urls, but just trying to give people to > chew on for second before just giving into a patent issue and > denying kids the right to view the site on nasa.gov. :-/ > (... they are using Flash aren't they??) Yeah, since you said, these are pretty much lame excuses. Considering any government-funded site is going to be required to be accessible, there's always going to be a Flash-less version. Flash is great for animation and all that but if you build a website that requires flash to perform a widely used function, lotta people gonna be screwed. If they're too poor to own a new computer, they get to discover how much of a resource hog Flash is anyway. > > > > -- > Roger > http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html > Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 > > Fri May 4 12:42:32 PDT 2007 > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
