From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 14 11:07:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA02362 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 11:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (we-refuse-to-spy-on-our-users@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA02357 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 11:07:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12GNU) id OAA07283; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 14:06:56 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 14:06:56 -0400 Message-Id: <199706141806.OAA07283@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: jfieber@indiana.edu CC: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from John Fieber on Sat, 14 Jun 1997 12:24:23 -0500 (EST)) Subject: Re: Complaining at Warner Brothers? From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> I started off trying to mail a (reasonably polite) complaint to the >> webmaster at Warner Bros. about their anal use of Shockwave for >> _everything_. >Reminds me of another site I ran into. The home page said >something like: "This site would rock if you were using >Microsoft Internet Explorer". >It seems that the commercial world has missed the point of the >world wide web: standardize the data, not the application. I have seen 'Enhanced for Lynx' buttons, and I have a 'Best Viewed With Any Browser' at the bottom of my page (although mine isn't attractive or organized enough to flatter the concept). It is interesting to note that Netscape Navigator does not properly display the 'Best Viewed...' button on mine at some resolutions under Win95. (I've not tested other combinations; you take what you can find.) Happy hacking, joelh -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped