From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 8 12:35:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA06227 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 12:35:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA06213 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 12:35:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emu.fsl.noaa.gov (kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.32]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA00006; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 19:35:36 GMT Message-Id: <199606081935.TAA00006@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA118432535; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 13:35:35 -0600 Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 13:35:35 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: reyes01@ibm.net Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606080616.GAA64071@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> (reyes01@ibm.net) Subject: Re: Snazzier FreeBSD home page Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Francisco" == "Francisco Reyes" writes: Francisco> I also recommend you drop all the advanced features Francisco> (Javascript?) you are using on the page which are not Francisco> widely supported for most browsers. Not so fast. Consider first that Netscape Navigator is probably the world's most popular browser, available on a wide variety of platforms and with similar feature sets amongst the lot of them. I think taking a probabilistic approach here won't hurt. That majority of the audience would be more pleased to see us take advantage of their browser's advanced features. Besides, didn't Jordan say that there'd be a browser selection page? Further, it's possible to configure the server to look for the browser software in use in the HTTP request and deliver the appropriate page. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/