Re: [OT] Geography lesson

On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:51:46 +0000, Phil Newnham <pnewnham@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>> We both know that, but the man in the street doesn't know that; attempting
>> to educate them via one's web site (broken in their browser) is likely to be
>> seen as an excuse, and they'll go elsewhere for their business...
>
>Then don't show them a page with broken CSS. Show them a page that's
>standard compliant and explain that there is a better version, but they
>need Firefox to view it. Most business people these days understand the
>association of Microsoft and buggy software - after all, most of them
>use Word ;)
>
One thing about standards is that they are in general ignorant of
market direction. MS is by far the dominent OS and browser provider
for business and home. I very much recall the days when i *had* to
give away my ANSI C habits, in order to write competetive looking
software, pretty much as soon as Windows hit the scene. Even before
that, writing cross platform software required oodles of #defines and
quite some double coding to cater for OS2,DOS,Unix etc...
DOS was relatively confirming, DOS extensions were not. Windows took
all that to a new level, where writing compliant code meant you were
not writing code for Windows.

This is nothing new and frankly, HTML progra^H^H^H^H^H^H script
kiddies, who endlessly complain about this, can go and get stuffed.
;-)

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Regards, Frank
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