On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:49:27PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Issues are interesting, name calling less so -> could you imagine a Labour > supporter on election day discouraging you from voting for "Howard the > Duck"? It may be funny, perhaps even accurate, but it's not convincing.
isn't that what the politcal parties do though? oops OT > 2) "My browser supports standards, your website does not..." > > Don't bother telling them what you're using - they're only going to > support the big ones, and probably have office jokes about Netscape/ > Mac/Linux/Amiga/OS/2 users anyway. However, if you tell them the benefits > of standards and accessibility, they might think twice about what they > offer, and who to. "Imagine if I couldn't send an email to you because the > software we used didn't speak the same language, wouldn't that be bad?" yeah well that just sounds patronising. BTW some places/people just don't care anyway. I've complained about the HR website of the mob I work for, it uses some weird javascript to disable drop-down menus and doesn't work properly in anything other than IE (netscape < 7 and mozilla crash loading it, netscape7 doesn't crash but doesn't work properly either). I've pointed them to the HEROC rules and pointed out the irony of the HR website discriminating against non-IE users, I've even offered to add simple text links (like alt tags) for them if they don't know how, and got no where. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
