<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Oren Beck</b> <<a href="mailto:orenbeck@gmail.com">orenbeck@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ok- we have a few opinions favoring simplicity.<br>Here's my next re-imagination of what could be.<br><br>The "page" currently can probe for some details of what's looking at it.<br>YES, that's an oversimplified explanation but for this concept it works.
<br>So- as is already done by some sites- the "version" of what you see <br>is selected for your device or connection or both. But can we go a bit farther?<br>As in an agreed upon default backchannel in the browser to tell sites
<br><br>"Show me <Blank> and do not ask me <blank> that GETS HONORED.<br><br>The reward is:Sites honoring such a scheme will get customers <br>pre-selected for parts of the site's content and not annoy customers
<br>with unwanted non revenue content<br> Which to me is that flood of "Plug-in" demands and the constant <br> begging us to update our <Blank> "To fully enjoy this site" <br>Or the more grim- it simply won't play at all with non-genuine MS.
<br>Believe and puke- there are plans afoot to tie WGA to browser access!<br>.<br>And sadly we still have to code OUR sites to play nice with windows.<br>Now the inversion of course is sites hostile to non-explorer browsers.
<br><br>I put it like this- while one has a "right" to make sites allow or forbid<br>certain browsers in personal work- "Public" sites such as government<br>or educational do NOT have a "right" to block handicapped or nonMS users.
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