On 5 Jul 98, at 21:00, Mary McWilliams Johnson wrote:
> At 06:30 PM 7/5/98 -0500, Peter J. Schoenster wrote:
> >If you visit a website that uses java then be prepared to be prepared.
> >
> >That's just my point! I didn't know I was going to a site with a JAVA
> applet that would crash my system. Folks who put JAVA stuff on their home
I recall that the link to that page said it was using java. It didn't crash my
browser. I don't think the java is necessarily to blame but I do find it wrong that
if a person's computer should crash - there must be some other way to handle
it. Your Shockwave example is a good example of a better way.
> I also use Javascript, but I'm careful to put in a filter that assures
> that no one will get an error message if their browser is not capable of
> handling Javascript.
I do not believe there is really any filter that exists for all browsers/platforms. I
still get error messages from javascript sites (in 4.0 netscape or ie). I think the
filter is an illusion.
> I'm sure mine is not the only computer that crashed upon visiting that
> site. And there's no reason why I should have to go to great lengths to
No one else mentioned it. You can be sure I would have mentioned it if my
computer crashed.
> fine-tune my system to accommodate developers who want to experiment with
No, just in good working order, up-to-date and all that.
> such things. According to you, my Aunt Sally has no right to surf the Web
> if she doesn't hire someone to come in and tune up her computer so that no
> Web pages will cause her system to crash.
No, you are reading far too much into what I am saying.
I say that Aunt Sally has no right to cry or complain if she ignorantly surfs the
web. Certainly she has the right to surf. Just don't cry and complain about
getting runover on the autobahn.
The first page Aunt Sally should go to is the one which relates using a
computer to using a car.
The problem, of course, is that using computers is easy and automatic. Just
turn the key on and where do you want to go today?
The last thing I want to see is that we move the web along according to the
slowest links.
Peter
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