Re: [Fwd: Why FrontPage is not HTML]

[Ben Drasin <drasin@mindspring.com>]

    It is also worth noting that many plug-ins do not exist for platforms other
than Windows. (I do not know if this is the case with the page in question,
only that it is an issue for many others).
bye-Ben

Erick Andrews wrote:

> Mr. Kelly skates the issue when he says "virtually 100% of the potential
> audience can access the site..." when the *reality* is that many browsers
> in use today cannot, or cannot reasonably access it without "extensions",
> proper or not.  I'd guess that this number is "virtually" less than 90%.
>
> But the real issue is his logic of exclusiveness.  For a site such as this,
> and the resources such as theirs, I fail to see why the web pages cannot
> be designed to accommodate Lynx, Opera, and other HTML compliant
> browsers as well, interactive commerce or not.  In other words, be a good
> citizen and finish the job.
>
> Did I overlook something here?  I think not.
>
> Erick
>



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