Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:33:36 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <005001c17288$c17d0800$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <15354.60877.44081.17515@guru.mired.org><019701c17224$013e6520$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15355.2770.644343.846234@guru.mired.org><01e201c17234$24bc2360$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15355.6508.841314.798412@guru.mired.org>
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Mike writes: > I've never had a client or manager open-minded > enough to use free software and stupid enough > to need that particular comfort blanket. Or smart enough to understand the importance of support and yet stupid enough to put mission-critical applications on unsupported freeware. The fact is, with all but the most trivial freeware, you need competent in-house support if you plan to use it for any critical applications. If something critical crashes, you will not have time to go searching for pro bono support somewhere on the Net. > There are certainly better tools than ftp for > maintaining file structure. Personally, I use > Perforce. Does it require X? > Yes, it autoindents for HTML, XML, C and Perl. Sounds good. > It doesn't pretend to be a WYSIWYG HTML editor, > but it can format HTML and follow links on the > fly. Uh-oh. Does it require X? > MSIE 4.x may have been better than Netscape 4.x, > but trying to get something that did anything > complicated, worked in both of them, and followed > the standards was a nightmare. That was Netscape's problem, not Microsoft's. I stopped supporting Netscape 4.x over a year ago because the browser has so many bugs that it at least doubles development time for any page or site, and because virtually no one is using Netscape browsers today, anyway (less than 2% of visitors to my site). In order to support Netscape 4.x, you have to write two versions of every page: one for Netscape, and one for all the other browsers in the world that adhere to W3C standards. Either that, or you have to create pages so lame that people fall asleep reading them. I voted to just drop Netscape support, and write for all the other browsers. The poor CSS support was one of the worst problems with that version of Netscape. > The one I see when I look is the MS tag for > embedding things, as opposed to OBJECT. I forget > the name of it. EMBED? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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