[thelist] Old Browsers old Software, cut bait and move on.

[evolt@spinhead]

i seriously missed my crank start car when i bought my second car, which had
to be pushed to start it. (yes, i did eventually buy a car with a decent
battery so i could key-start it)

if i didn't control my own economy, and had to drive older used cars, i'd
take the one with the crank start every single time. yes, it was ugly (ugly
ugly) but it was usable.

i haven't heard anyone saying that every website must degrade for every
browser. what i keep hearing is that, with a minimal extra effort, most
sites can be made to degrade gracefully for most browsers, and that you
should genuinely know your audience before making this business, not
technical, decision.

check up on those holier than thou posters like aardvark and martin. they
may actually know what they're talking about.

spinhead

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith" <cache at dowebs.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Old Browsers old Software, cut bait and move on.


> > >   The Inmates Are Running The Asylum
> > >   Alan Cooper
> > >   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672316498/
>
> > Great book on basically how businesses that create products that work
> > with the way people think, instead of creating an item and then having
> > to teach people how to use it, have much more success.
>
> Good point, tell Tom Edison, Al Bell, and Tim Berners-Lee they
> were idiots for "creating an item and then having  to teach people
> how to use it".  Shame on them for thinking thoughts that everyone
> has never thought before! What the hell is this world coming to
> when progress cannot be held off by a grandma and her NN3.02?
>
> Who on this list still programs BBS access? Who will still be
> "degrading gracefully" for NN2.02 in 2009 when it's 15 years old?
> Does anyone here still drive a crank started automobile?  The
> question of leaving old browsers in the dust is simply a question of
> "if not now, when; if not here, where".  The time will even come
> when none of us remember how to code that old dead language
> named HTML.
>
> Don't let the "holier than thou" responses to your post get to ya
> Brian, change happens, they'll get over it.  And hey, I refuse to open
> IE unless I'm paid damned good money to do so. I'm a loyal
> Netscape fan, but I'll get over it....
>
> Cheers
>
> keith
>
>
>