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 ==> Author    : Thomas Weigle (weigle@snip-to-mail.algonet.se (Thomas Weigle))
 ==> Article   : <weigle-ya023180002001970012230001@news.algonet.se>
 ==> Newsgroup : comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
 ==> Date      : 20 Jan, 01:12:39

>>Have you told your customers that they are paying for extra work?
> 
> I tell them that we will have to put extra time into developing item x to
> fit more browsers, yes. I tell them that item x will in its current state
> only work in browser y and they usually think it's worth the extra time to
> make it available to browser z as well. Oh, most clients tell me that it
> won't be necessary: their clientele use Netscape 2.0 or later.

  Ah, so you tell your customers that they will have to pay for extra time
put into developing item X to fit more browsers ... in other words: you tell
your customers that they need to pay for something which will happen
automatically with correct HTML.

  Where did I put that law-book ? Nah; why bother. I believe in
Darwinism.



> A natural development would be to ask designers what they want, then to see
> how it could be implemented. Instead of trying to force a standard onto me,
> a standard that I will not follow because it does not fulfill my needs, W3C
> et al should ask me what I would like to have, then they should consider if

  Its been said before: you allready *HAVE* tools that do this: PostScript
and PDF. HTML _was_not_designed_ for what you want to do with it.



> because--as David Siegel points out--Netscape think that their browser will
> be the ultimate browser, the total product. Microsoft will pretend to be

  The Final Solution, hm ?

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