At 2:46 PM +0100 on 2/22/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
>>Alain: This does seem strange to me, because: (1) I am
>>not employing any change recently made to JavaScript.
>>(2) Not long ago, several months in fact, I was using
>>Netscape 4.0.x with an earlier version of my system.
>>(3) Over 4000 students (and a dozen teachers) have
>>used my system in the last three years without any
>>substantial problems.
>
>Alain,
>
> this is in favor of your page and might mean that Anthony's setup is
>somehow buggy. I guess Anthony is running Linux and MacOS both on the same
>machine -- maybe that causes an interference?
Linux and MacOS are on seperate disk partitions; they don't interfere.
And, as pointed out in different messages, others have problems, too.
>If anyone uses 4.0.8 and it works, this would prove
>Anthony's setup if damaged, and I guess we should rather try to find out
>what's causing the problem on his end to be able to help other that might
>have the same problem.
My setup and the setup of other people on my ISP's ng is simular to
tens of millions of others. To create a medium of communication with
the goal of reaching a large audience and then call a large number of
its user's setups "damaged" is not the right kind of approach, to say
the least.
What ever happened to the principle of expecting the unexpected, and
making it still work?
> Is it an "optional" system, or does it provide a service they can't do
>without? In the latter case it may be possible that they just didn't deem
>it important enough to try diagnosing it and instead asked someone else to
>get it for them.
Very possible. People do tend to assume that if something on their
computer does not work it is their fault. Also, a homogeneous student
body at a university is hardly a testing grounds for a technology for
the Internet.
Also, nobody has pointed this out, but search engines can't index the
FreeCard pages if they're done in JavaScript. A bad thing, IMO.
BTW: Uli, I also did a modular outputter. It is very modular, for that
matter. Handles lists of files; it is part of the still-incomplete
StackSearcher done for UFP. I have re-uploaded the latest "oops, the
world should not of seen this" version of StackSearcher.
<http://ufp.uqam.ca/OpenCard/Downloads/Anthony/Stack%20Searcher.sit>
Take a look at it.
