In a message dated: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:34:29 EST
Bayard Coolidge USG said:
>And, at the risk of a slight digression, web sites that assume that
>users have Shock and/or Flash plug-ins, etc. The parents of one of
>my kids' friends had their own Web site - they were so proud of it,
>and gave me their business card with their URL on it. So, out of
>courtesy, I looked it up one day on the Web. All I got was a huge
>mono-colored rectangle and in the middle were the immortal words:
>"Flash Plug-In Required". And, I might add, this happened to me both
>here at work (on Tru64 UNIX on a Alpha XP1000 Workstation) and at
>home (on Linux on a dual Intel P-II mobo).
At least it was only a Flash plugin required, for which you have the
opportunity to download one for Linux. It could have been Quicktime,
which isn't available for Linux :)
I recently visited a website where I got a popup telling me the web
page had "Performed an Illegall Operation". I almost died. There
are evidently some web pages which are really win32 executables
running and look like a real windows session!
--
Seeya,
Paul
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God Bless America!
...we don't need to be perfect to be the best around,
and we never stop trying to be better.
Tom Clancy, The Bear and The Dragon
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