On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:56:48 -0800, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 10, 2005, at 10:37 AM, Todd Walton wrote: > > > Neither of those plausible explanations involves the word "spite" or > > "_dare_", and I can't imagine what facts are at your disposal that > > would justify such a subjective opinion. > > Sheesh, do I need to smiley everything? Most of that was hyperbole.
Oh yeah... Me too. What, I have to tell you I'm joking? My words didn't show it? > And, really, I haven't come across a web site yet that Safari, or > FireFox (my fall-back browser) couldn't adequately handle. Argh. I have. Southwest Airlines sent out a link in it's newsletter to a free movie. The website was Movielink which doesn't even show you its front page if you're not running Internet Explorer. Also, there was a website somebody sent to the list the other day that I had trouble getting to load with Firefox. My school, Grossmont College, uses an .exe file to show financial aid data. If you go to the school's website and click through to check your financial aid data it tries to load an .exe and Firefox and Mozilla just say "Where do you want to save this file?". In Internet Explorer, of course, it loads right up and shows what financial aid I've received. (What is it, ASP? I've never even heard of .exe-loading in IE.) There's absolutely no interactivity in the thing beyond buttons. It could all be handled with HTML over secured HTTP. Oh, and also school demographic data is viewable IE-only. I have a Lan-like reaction to these kinds of things. I can actually feel the physical stress it causes. Sites that refuse to do anything without *cookies* are actually a lot more common, though, in my experience. (Netflix, for example.) Sites that won't work without pop-ups (Gmail) are fortunately rare. Gmail fixed this problem a couple of weeks ago. It's frustrating trying to get people to understand why adhering to protocol standards is important on the Internet. (HTML, decent English, filetypes. "Everyone will know what I mean.") -todd "what the hell is computer science for?" walton -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
