On Jul 25, 2008, at 9:56 PM, Anthony Farr wrote: > This is why, in regulated environments, small subgroups aren't > permitted to create the rules for the whole group. Otherwise we'd get > owners of Italian and German supercars raising speed limits 200% > because those speeds are safe for them and damn everyone else they're > idiots for driving standard vehicles why don't they just die and leave > the roads free for us real drivers?!! Similarly, when I owned a 4WD I > would have been happy if all roads were goat tracks and who cares if > sedans would have their sumps ripped out at every bump, that's their > owners' faults for buying such incapable wussy vehicles. Bike riders, > truckers, public transport riders, and pedestrians all have similar > sentiments of their own exclusive right to the roads. > > The road user allusion fits the internet like a glove, and while I > realise that the web is a lawless badland, that's no reason to dismiss > or disparage most of its users just because you ride at the pointy > end.
It doesn't fit at all imo. It sounds like in your ideal world, everything is reduced to a lowest common denominator: every web site must run perfectly on the crappiest browser, therefore anything that browser cannot handle is forbidden. Microsoft only develops IE to lock users into their software for profit. FireFox is open source. Safari is Apple technology but built on open source rendering core code. IE in particular properly practically none of the current standards in web display properly. Meanwhile, FireFox and Safari, never mind several others, seem to support them all pretty well. > BTW I've never had a problem viewing your pages, Godfrey. That's because I mostly either write simple HTML by hand, point browsers at simple JPEG files, or similar. I will likely be going to a little more sophisticated design with my website that will probably include some flash ... flash phobic people will likely say nasty things. Comments I've gotten from the professional community seem to indicate that this is necessary. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
