Compliments and proofreading

From: Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 18:21:58 +0000
Subject: Compliments and proofreading
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I would like to bring about the issue regarding backwards compatibility. Before you jump onto the XML wagon and test your work with IE 6, remember that many people do not use IE at all. Please do not enforce Microsoft's monopoly unless you're in their payroll. I am not one of those annoying compulsive Microsoft detractors, I just think that people have every right to make a choice and there is no actual good reason to sabotage their choice. I'm beginning to run into sites that say "this site is made for IE 6, get yourself a decent browser", it's a very sad attitude. Upgrading is also not that simple. I run Win 95 and IE 6 cannot be installed on Win 95. I still run Win95 because 98 barely introduced any improvement relevant enough to justify the purchase of an expensive upgrade. Then came Windows ME, which was even sillier, and now there is XP, which I just hate. W2K is decent, but I don't need it at all. Everything I have to do Win 95 can do fine. I am not going to buy W2K just to install IE 6 and satisfy the egoes of insensitive Web designers. If they buy me a copy, I'll upgrade gladly! Please remember that IE 5 has very limited support to XML and many people have Java turned off in their browsers. I have it on, and there are some things in the new CHM file already that don't work in my system. If you get too carried away with these things, you will be leaving people out without any real need for doing that. Please remember that PHP is supposed to be cross-platform. CHM files are not, but that doesn't mean they should be pushed towards the restricted side of all possibilities. Thank you for listening, Luciano Espirito Santo Santos - SP - Brasil

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