Contacting offending websites is a good idea. I can normally only be bothered to do it with sites I visit regularly, or ones I'm related to in some way (e.g. departments at my university). If you can spare the time, it's very good to explain what it is in the site that is causing the problem (this is not always a Linux/w3c issue - it might be related to general web design problems, such as setting an absolute font size which comes out as gigantic or microscopic at the "wrong" resolution). For example, in the days when I didn't have Flash installed, some bad javascript would cause the "Download Flash" popup to open in over ten boxes - I wrote to one offending site and it was fixed within the hour.
Similarly, when I started out on the web (well before my Linux days) I made the mistake of thinking I could use MS Word's "Save as HTML" feature. A few polite emails started me on the long road to Linux ... Sir Robin Josef Lowder wrote: > The protest message I send to "offending" websites: > > -------------------------------- > Do you realize that limitations you have built into your website > cut off more than half the world from being able to access your website? > > How savvy is that? > > Why in the world would you design your website to require visitors > to use any one type of browser (and/or specific add-on functions like > flash) when more than half of the computer users in the world cannot > access your website as a consequence? > ---------------------------------- > > Furthermore, when they require a bunch of personal info that I do not > want to provide, I just put "X's" in each field and for an email address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ;)) > > > >>On Wednesday 03 Jul 2002 9:35 am, you wrote: >> >>>Michael Adams wrote: >>> >>>>I tried to visit this site. >>>>http://www.bet365.com >>>> >>>>The result upset me so much i sent them this. >>>> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > -- "So I repeat myself? I am great, I contain tautologies." Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent �niversitesi Ankara Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
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