On 25 Jun 98, at 8:30, Rainmaker wrote:
> If you need to get a message across, I can help. If I need to
> combine animated gifs, you, or Jack or Suz or Susan or Lee or
> Brent or Gerry or Matt, or... can help (forgive me if I forgot
> anybody). Could you learn marketing? Sure. Could I learn how
> to combine gifs? Absolutely. But together we have a great team,
> and we become a great resource. That's my take on FP -- a great
> resource to be used strategically, and not for everything.
Yes, FP could be used by someone like a secretary. I just cannot imagine
someone calling himself a webmaster and using FP. If he understands the web
(and not how MS would like to define) then I cannot imagine him using FP.
I am not necessarily a programmer, nor a sysadmn and especially not a writer
or designer but I do believe I understand computers and how they can be used
on the web. I dislike products like FP because they fence me in. I had a
customer who was using FP to control access to some directories. He was
using a bunch of MS or FP speak but when he said password protect I told him
to wait. I telnetted into the server and lo and behold there was an .htaccess file.
I opened it and saw where the password file was. I then ran htpasswd to add
the user he was trying to add via FP. His world was defined by MS and FP.
Mine was not. I have written my own cgi's to update users,passwords etc. on
websites. I bet that FP may have a neat tool of its own to do that. But a
webmaster should be aware of what is being done and how his tool is helping
him. Those people who come into this business through FP will never have
that foundation or understanding. Yet they will begin to define what the web is;
at least within their organization; I shudder.
Could you ever in your wildest dreams have imagined the internet created by
users of ms windows?
Peter
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