Arrrrgh!

> 
> Now then, having established there are more browsers on the web than Navigator and Lynx. 
> We can also say there is virtually no platform on which one should be using a 
> low-quality browser incapable of parsing some of the most useful HTML tags, yet.
> 
> As users, we should avoid sub-quality software as this only encourages its creation, and 
> as designers, we should pick and promote those tags, features and technologies 
> optimizing  communcation with our carefully targeted audiences.
 
> Therefore, instead of saying, "this site uses frames and is optimized for Netscape 
> two-beta-eight-hundred-sixty-nine, download now", let's help our audience become more 
> internet savvy by helping them exercise their right to choose and by increasing their 
> technological confidence. 



I've exercised my right to choose. I chose not to spend several 
hundred dollars to upgrade my computer just so I can run a graphical 
browser. There are blind people out there who can not use a 
graphical browser. There are even engineers out there who, despite 
having the latest RISC workstations, prefer not to use a graphical 
browser.

If, as a site designer, you exercise your right to choose to ignore 
us, that's fine.  But don't try talking down to us and "educating" us 
about the best browser, or why frames are something we can't live 
without.

 


Adam Gaffin
Online Editor, Network World
agaffin@nww.com / (508) 820-7433
"So, in 1996, CD-ROMs through Federal Express will
emerge as the information superhighway." - Bob Metcalfe

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