Compliments and proofreading
| From: | Luciano ES | 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