On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 07:55:18AM -0400, Brent Eades wrote:
> Also, I was surprised that the "archive downloads" are in .DOC format,
> rather than generic text. There are two problems here: (1) a user can't
> read (and thus decide if he likes) any of the archived columns without
> launching MS Word or a similar .DOC-compatible app -- which he may or
> may not have; and (2) some users, me included, will not open .DOC files
> from the Web period [...]
A hearty second. We invented the web so that people wouldn't have to
deal with proprietary, restricted formats like .DOC which require
specific applications to cope with them. To put *anything* on the web
in such a format demonstrates a disregard for the philosophical and
engineering principles on which the web is built; more pragmatically
speaking, it disenfranchises a very large segment of the 'net community.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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