Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 18:03:24 -0800 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Jamie Jones <jamie@bishopston.net> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NatWest? no thanks Message-ID: <3BE1FEEC.BA90E726@acuson.com> References: <200111020114.BAA28852@bishopston.net>
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Jamie Jones wrote: > Isn't it the responsibility of the designer to explain that all browsers > should work, when the code is clean ? > ... > None of this requires the "man in the street" to get technically savvy, > but maybe we can gently remove some of his ignorance. The businessman needs to get technically savvy. People who sell automobiles know about automobiles. People who sell books know about books. People who sell beer know about beer. It's time that people who sell computers, software, or information services know about computers, software and information services. It is unreasonable for a company to support every single operating system in existance. But it is reasonable that they support standards. A banking site that uses standard HTML and standard CGI interfaces is going to be accessible by any browser from IExplorer on down to Lynx. The best solution to these types of problems is to take your business elsewhere, -and- let them know why. Politely of course. Don't just tell the webmaster. Tell the bank president. They won't hurt from this lost revenue, but eventually they'll figure out that bank presidents shouldn't be taking orders from their webmasters. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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