[thelist] Site check: Staples.com

[Robert Gormley]

Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> Google also indexes a lot of formats that simply aren't appropriate for
> use on the World Wide Web due to their closed, proprietary nature (MSN,
>   
It's now inappropriate to publish any closed proprietary format material 
on the web?

That universities publishing lecture notes can't do so in 
Keynote/Powerpoint?

That small contacts db applications (not that I would want to use such a 
thing) can't be published as an Access database?

That an executable can't be published, because it won't run natively on 
another OS?

That a graphics company can't publish template resources in Photoshop or 
Illustrator format?

That a publishing/printing company can't publish templates in InDesign 
format?

These are all - blanket statement - INAPPROPRIATE for any publishing on 
the web?

That's a pretty extreme 'open source' view. And it's ... rather unrealistic.