Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:06:36 -0600 From: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [burnscharlesn@hotmail.com: Advocacy help for CS professor] Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020324125937.019edf00@threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <15518.6465.710922.324623@guru.mired.org> References: <3C9E11B7.F36170B8@centtech.com> <20020322013138.A87120@xor.obsecurity.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020324105234.0199cda8@threespace.com> <3C9E11B7.F36170B8@centtech.com>
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At 12:21 PM 3/24/2002, Mike Meyer wrote: >Anyone who actually knew anything about the desktop market would have >predicted the result of Netscape trying to out-Microsoft Microsoft. >It's like the neighborhood bully tangling with the 800-lb gorilla. You >get a very broken bully. And as much as I recognize the problem, at the end of the day I don't really care about standards as much as being able to see my choice web sites quickly and correctly. I think most web site designers are the same way, figuring that most of their audience will be using Internet Explorer, and the small minority who aren't will be able to find their way to an IE without too much effort. (It is free, right?) As much as possible, I try not to set my non-Windows browsers to report as IE. Site administrators may never notice, but I want to "stand up and be counted" as a FreeBSD user. Somebody might actually start paying attention one day. >I also disable a number of other things to save my failing >eyesight. I keep a box with Windows installed just to boot and run IE >when I come to a site that can't operate in that environment. There's >nothing else in the Windows partition that I care about. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one who did/does this. I had a Windows 98 system for a while whose only purposes was running IE6 and displaying web pages. :-) << Chip Morton >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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