- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:06:25 -0500 (EST)
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- cc: WAI <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Well, I guess that's another black mark in Australia's copybook. Hopefully we do more good than bad though (smile). Whether the idea dies the death it probably deserves, or expands into the nightmare that people seem to fear, depends on how many people buy Pentium 3 machines, and whether they then play in teh sites or just write comments saying they wished the money had been psent making their computer cheaper instead. (and leave the site alone. Unfortunately I haven't worked out how to have my cake and eat it. Yet.) Oh well. Interoperability won't be built in a day. (Although I sometimes wonder whether a bit more thinking would have eant that it could...) cheers Charles On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Kynn Bartlett wrote: At 01:30 p.m. 03/02/99 EST, Lovey@aol.com wrote: >Please note the following article I was sent today. >Pentium III-only sites coming >By DAVID FLYNN | INTEL is working with several Australian content providers to >establish Web sites that are not only optimised for PCs based on the Pentium >III processor but restricted to Pentium III machines. Sounds like a really dopey idea. About as dopey as the identity tracking on Pentium IIIs. I predict that this idea is dopey enough that it will die just from being dopey once the Pentium III marketing rush is over. You know, using the same technology I suppose one could always EXCLUDE Pentium IIIs as a way of protest. -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@hwg.org> President, Governing Board Member HTML Writers Guild <URL:http://www.hwg.org> --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://purl.oclc.org/net/charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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