Plug-ins, including Flash
Robert Kennedy
erwin_k_r at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 20 21:21:53 CST 2003
--- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:
snip
>
> What about the people who have marginal systems or
> connections, for whom the
> plug-in alone is a significant load on their system?
>
>
> What about the people who are running a locked-down
> corporate computer? Are
> they going to call their IT department and say "I
> want you to load Flash on my
> computer so I can browse this job search site"?
>
> If you want to dress your site up with special
> layouts and animation, go ahead
> and use these things to "enhance the viewing
> experience", but don't rely on
> them.
>
> If you make your content accessible only through
> propietary, closed-source,
> non-open-standard software you shut people out, to
> say nothing of betraying
> the spirit of the open source movement.
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Hi All,
Case in point:
I recently went to a company's site to check an
animation of their chromakey product. I'm using IE 5.5
as provided by my agency. I am not allowed to download
any additional stuff for it. The site informed me that
I must update to the latest Windblows Media Player.
I sent them an email that explained the situation and
suggested a lower common denominator. I may have been
a bit sarcastic, but I -was- polite.
The following morning I received a polite reply
suggesting I should seek another, outside, computer to
view their sales pitch.
The polite lady neglected to clip out the line the
web-master added when he forwarded my message to the
sales department: "Do you have any suggestions what to
do with this jerk?"
Oh well?
Best,
Bob Kennedy
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