[H-GEN] Re: HTML email

[Nikolai Lusan]

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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Greg Black wrote:

> | Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of using *nix to access the net. I
> | need to use Windows simply because of the functionality of IE. There are
> | things that IE does that none of the *nix browsers do and some of the people
> | I work with write their web pages that way.
>
> If people don't want me to read their web pages, then I'm happy
> not to read them.  If they do want me to read stuff, they will
> produce it in a format that I can read.  This includes using
> fonts that I can see with my old eyes and writing in one of the
> languages that I speak and not using stupid html/java/foobar
> tricks in their web pages.

I agree, "you need IE to view it" is just not right - it's like saying
"you need a ford to drive on this road". The same goes with the
circulation of documents sending things in proprietry formats is just
not on (I personally fight this battle with people all the time). If
people are writing web pages that can only be viewed using IE then they
are stupid, it is not the only browser out there and if you need a
specific browser then what happens to people with incredibly poor vison
or those who are blind? these pages will be barely negotiable with large
fonts, no images and a braille or speach based browser. There quite
simply are too many people out the who don't refuse to be forced to use
Microsoft products or who cannot view these "spiffy" pages for other
reasons, and to say "well thats the way we do it" is like arguing that
spam is a legitimate business tactic.


Nikolai


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