Preacher wrote:
> Eerrrkk.... I forget about Netscape... Hmmm....... Gotta rig a separate
> front page for them I guess without the applet... Thanks for the tip, I'll
> work on it....
>
> On a related note, why doesn't Netscape support Java? ANyone a Netscape guru
> here?
<soapbox mode on>
Dude - you are severly misinformed. Netscape and Sun's Java are like bread and
butter. Netscape is the one who brought Java to the masses. Microsloth had to
totally redesign their IE to catch up not long ago. Furthermore, Micro$oft's
implementation doesn't even meet the spec for Java. As usual - they had to do
it in a proprietary fashion - against the licensing - in order to maintain and
help further their monopoly. This is one of the main reasons they went to
federal court AND LOST.
According to your definition of BASTAARDS - Brotherhood Against Social Trends
Aimed At Restructuring Democratic Society, I would say that you need to take a
LONG HARD look at what you are doing with your pages. Without climbing too high
up on my soapbox - suffice it to say that Microslow is equal to the END OF
INNOVATION in the computer industry. How you say? Netscape was a software
product that basically brought the masses to the Internet. HTML and HTTP were
invented before Netscape but Netscape was the actual vehicle that brought the
masses to the Internet. The internet was around long before HTML, HTTP,
Netscape, or Microsuck. The masses getting on the Internet was/is the biggest
thing to happen to the computer industry in at least the last decade. Since
Muckrosoft has essentially killed Netscape - we dont expect any more innovation
from them. In fact - this is the essence of their business model - find out
what the public/majority likes - regardless of who patented the idea or who laid
claim to the intellectual property (ie - Sun's Java) - duplicate it in a
proprietary way (requiring the use of Windows) - give it away free with the
Windows OS thus killing any and all competition. This is exactly what they are
doing with Netscape and Sun's Java. They have already successfully done the
same to tens of thousands of smaller innovative software companies (basis of all
the other lawsuits against them).
Your use of FrontPage as a design tool is forcing everyone who visits your pages
to use you know whos browser or else - you are perpetuating that which you claim
to despise. And apparently without even knowing it. In other words - you have
been assimilated.
What should you do instead? Support standards - like HTML. Netscape and Sun
live and breathe standards - did you ever wonder why they both run on basically
EVERY platform that exists as well as every potential platform (the basis of
Java). How many platforms does Windows and IE support? Did you ever wonder why
there are only Windows machines on the shelves at your local computer store
(excluding Macs). Thats because everyone else has already been put out of
business. The end of innovation in the computer industry. EVERYTHING you do
relating to computers will eventually require that you pay guess who. You (and
everyone else) have been doing it for years and dont even realize it.
You need to do some serious reading in this area.
</soapbox mode off>
Sorry about that people - I've been trained by my profession to know how to be a
great a$$hole. Just keep in mind that I am against monopolies and too much
government intervention.
Dak content: Just wait till they get ahold of the computers in your trucks.
For some of you - its already too late.
Latr,
Shane
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