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[Mon, 27 Jan 1997 03:07:59] [Thomas Weigle]

> If you are not interested in buying, you're not very interesting to the
> companies. That easy. Has been so for the past five or six thousand years,
> ever since humans started doing trade.

  What you seemingly don't manage to pick up, is that fact that you don't
know what the person -- the potential *buyer* -- in the other end has. You
don't *know* whether that person is blind, but still able to buy a present
for his family - a present that you'd dearly love to sell. When you don't
cater for that blind person, you *dont do your job*.

  It is that simple. Especially since catering for all is built into HTML.
Its only when you *dont* want to cater for them that the job gets difficult.



> future. As for Lynx, I hope it is being updated to support *the features
> people clearly want*, not an obsolete "standard".

  You don't know Lynx, do you ? Lynx supports *more* HTML than NS and IE,
it supports any animation, sound or image you can dream up; and it has more
features and advanced functions than Netscape and Microsoft have ever
imagined.

  No, it doesn't support stylesheets - yet.



> My WWW is like a trip to the city to buy some stuff on which I will buy
> stuff from the companies who has the most appealing displays with the stuff
> I want. If I happen to trip on their entrance carpet because I for some
> strange reason am wearing six inch heels, I wouldn't blame the company. I
> would leave, sure, but more because I would be ashamed of myself than
> because the company had erred (stupid-browser-choice analogy).

  Yes - if you manage to trip on a carpet wearing mere 6 inch heels, you need
more practise.

  However: lets take our millionaire blind fellow again. He goes to town too,
with his 'HTML reader' - or secretary. She, or he, 'reads' - ie. describes
what is in the shop-windows, and our happy fellows buys about a ton of
presents for his family.

  Ops, he got access to the information *anyway* ! With HTML, he doesn't
*need* the secretary to help him, as he allready *has* the information 
available. That is: unless someome has worked their butt of to hide the
information from him by writing stupid HTML code.


  Did it help this time ?

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