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In <weigle-ya023180002801970042370001@news.algonet.se> weigle@snip-to-mail.algonet.se (Thomas Weigle) writes:

>> He didn't say he wasn't interesting in buying. He said he wasn't interested
>> in paying to VISIT a web site designed by you or some other "We love Netscape"
>> web designer.

>You don't have to pay to visit the site. Hell no.

Yes you do, if you have to download a new browser (in addition to the one you
already have) or a new plugin.

>But you need a computer to connect to Internet.

Yes and the user already has one, what's your point?

> Old standards of communication, like simple phones,
>just won't do. Same thing is happening to old standards here.

That's funny, I don't see HTML dissappearing anywhere.

>> Web authors have been screaming for HTML3.0 (yeah yeah, it's dead...
>> nevertheless there are so many excellent things in it) support in browsers
>> all the time, Netscape didn't bother support it, MSIE didn't bother support
>> it...why don't they give us what we want?

>Well, they did pretty well without you Web authors. I assume they went for
>the Web designers instead.

Indeed they did, because it was easier to sell their junk to them.

>Others will instead try to make the new stuff accessible to the disabled,
>and add features that will make the browsers you call bloatware into very
>useful home shopping assistants or something like that.

How very noble of them...in the process they bastardize HTML to the point
that you need MSIE to view the MSIE "enhanced" pages, NS to view the
NS "enhanced" pages and some HTML compliant browser to view the HTML-documents.
Fine, well I guess that's allright, I mean, hey, people are making money
left and right, it *must* be the way to go.

				-TPP