Re: Sausage Software: the products

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From: Cliff Pratt
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:00

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DJ! wrote
>
>When I wrote my first web page back in 1991 (in the
>heady days of NCSA Mosaic) I used Pico (Unix text editor).
>I continued to use text based editing until Netscape "got
>it right" in Composer. Now I use Composer first and foremost,
>however, I still drag up notepad to do a final tidy-up of my final
>page when necessary.
>
Oh gOd, not Composer! Hehehe! I'm surprised that you can
do anything with Composer. Last time I looked, it didn't even
do tables!

>I will not cripple my web pages for the sake of the
>bandwidth-lame or browser-inept.
>
That's fine. That means that 99% of the Internet will never
get the full benefit (if that's the word), of your pages.

If you write pages professional, (I don't) you want as wide
a catch as possible. You don't want just the 0.001% at the
bleeding edge. You want the AOLers (bless them). The
Xtra users. The demon users. The hoi polloi.

Cliff

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From: "Cliff Pratt" <Cliff.Pratt@vuw.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: Sausage Software: the products
Date: 1998/04/29
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