David A. Desrosiers wrote: > I submit that the Onion website, or any other site > using the pods:// style linking, is geared to be driven by a very > specific (AvantGo) client application, and we shouldn't be trying to > replicate that. We should instead try to educate these content > providers, and show them that using industry standards and practices > is the best way to reach their audience.
First of all, educating these content providers takes time (and they might not listen or even understand what you're saying). Second, the content providers may want to keep the "history back" links because they actually want this functionality(and sometimes it does come in handy). Third, it makes Plucker look bad. Most users will only notice that the links do not work, they don't care about the underlying technical reasons. Now, for some irony: the "industry standards and practices" are to target the dominant browser, complying with W3C standards is hardly a priority or even a consideration. I've done web development for four years and I always faced an uphill struggle when I tried to explain to my boss or my clients that the sites should work in all browsers(and thus comply with common standards). All they see is the site working fine in IE, so why should they bother with Netscape? Time is money after all. Likewise, AvantGo is still the dominant handheld browser and I believe that incorporating some of AvantGo's functionality, while not standards-compliant, will help Plucker in the long run. Regards -Laurens _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
