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> 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.
Agreed And double it for those idiots who use Adobe PDF's! PDF is
great for printing things, but don't FORCE your user to use that crap for
viewing it!!!
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