- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 22:17:51 -0700
- To: "Bruce Bailey" <bbailey@clark.net>
- Cc: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 09:50 PM 10/24/1999 , Bruce Bailey wrote: >To quote Tim Berners-Lee: "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed >with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old >days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document >written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." The corollary, though, is that if you _can_ control the type of computer, the word processor, or the network, it makes perfect sends to support only one browser on a given page. And you _do_ have that level of control in many corporate intranets, just like many corporate intranets only have one supported email program instead of trying to provide technical support for whatever anyone chooses to install on their own system. I'm not saying this is "right", people, or that it matches the Cult of Interoperability's high standards for ethical conduct in the Internet/Intranet workplace -- but I'm saying it's realistic and common, and it makes perfect sense within a given context. If we have a company-wide policy, "We use Internet Explorer 4.0, which you all have installed on your computers," then I am _not_ going to care if my Intranet-only application won't run on your Lynx, your Opera, or your Netscape. (And again, this isn't the same issue as accessibility, either.) -- Kynn Bartlett mailto:kynn@hwg.org President, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org/ AWARE Center Director http://aware.hwg.org/
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