Here's something intresting: latly, the Macromedia shockwave plug-in
is becoming an internet standard. I find more and more sites that
are moving to it, and infact in some places require the browser to
support it or they will block the entrance. This type of thing is
even worse then Javascript because here the thing is a compiled
file which I cannot view and analyze to figure out where to go
manualy. I dont like the idea of this thing becoming a standard
because it support only the 2 major browsers, on only two platforms:
Windows 9x, and MacOS. (I dont know about NT, but I do know that
the plug-in is not availble for Linux, BeOS, OS/2, or just about
anything else.)
Also, there is no way to make the Shockwave plug-in to be more
accessible to people with accessibility problems such as blindness.
No ALT tags in that thing. Even more so, the media files themselves
are indefinetly larger then normal HTML files with embadded GIFs
and JPGs. (which can be turned off in most cases, by this reducing
the size of the HTML page.). The newspapers in my country are latly
praising the Shockwave technology, and keeps writing articles about
how it should replace "HTML that is becoming almost obselete in
comparison".
I dont know about you people, but I have a bad feeling about this.
Or Botton
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