Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:34:06 -0600 From: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [burnscharlesn@hotmail.com: Advocacy help for CS professor] Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020324182324.01ba1400@threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <15518.14098.914375.572020@guru.mired.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020324125937.019edf00@threespace.com> <3C9E11B7.F36170B8@centtech.com> <20020322013138.A87120@xor.obsecurity.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020324105234.0199cda8@threespace.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020324125937.019edf00@threespace.com>
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At 02:29 PM 3/24/2002, Mike Meyer wrote: > > figuring that most of their audience will be using Internet Explorer, > > and the small minority who aren't will be able to find their way to an IE > > without too much effort. (It is free, right?) > >How can I use IE if I don't run Windows or a RISC workstation? You may be right, web designers may not think outside of IE-compatibility. I think they may have when Navigator was still a factor in the browser wars, but maybe not anymore. And I would imagine that even if you don't personally own/use a Windows-capable PC, you probably could get to one rather easily. I would imagine that most people on this list could, but I'm sure there are exceptions. >Better yet, how do I put a system running MSIE in my pocket and carry >it around? A properly designed web site will work fine on browsers I >can fit in my pocket. That's why I run w3m with autoloading of frames >turned off - I want to know which web sites are going to work on my >Palm, and which aren't, and seldom bookmark the latter. Well, first of all you could do what I did--get a PocketPC and taa-daa, you've got Internet Explorer in your pocket. :-) But seriously, the best examples that I've seen of "pocket" compatibility are with web sites that alter an alternative version, usually a mobile.somewebpage.com that does away with lots of the frills that weigh down so many sites. That even seems to be the route to browser compatibility for most sites I visit--detect the user's browser and route him accordingly to the correct page. << Chip Morton >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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