[thelist] Do we still need to say Download Acrobat Reader?

Kristof Neirynck k.neirynck at belgacom.net
Wed Jul 17 18:57:01 CDT 2002


Hassan Schroeder wrote:

>Madhu Menon wrote:
>
>
>>>Perhaps a link to OpenOffice.org would be the better cross-platform
>>>recommendation?
>>>
>>>
>>Well... expecting people to download a 50 MB (Linux - 70.8 MB) package just
>>to view a DOC file might be overkill, ya' know. ;)
>>
>>
>
>True, but providing a link to a DOC viewer that won't work on their
>platform might be -- uh, would you call it 'underkill'? :-)
>
>
euch...
openoffice can't open all doc files
I'm *strongly* opposed to using doc files on a website
it makes your visitors dependent on m$

Kristof





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