- From: Access Systems <accessys@smart.net>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:33:39 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- cc: Mary.Dunlop@visionaustralia.org.au, Danny Ayers <danny666@virgilio.it>, W3c-Wai-Ig <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > The basic problem is that the user base won't insist on a single standard. > That's not actualy unreasonable - the world is a big place, and different > people want different things. and sometimes things just get entrenched and the majority refuse to change even when there is no reason not to and every reason to make the change. I personally would never consider using the obsolete QWERTY keyboard but the vast majority of the population of the world continue to plug along with that anachrism that was designed over 150 years ago with the intentional purpose of slowing down a typist.......sometimes even when there is a "convention" even if it is not formally a standard many folks will refuse to make the change. A prime example is the question, Why does the United States not make the logical and easy change to the international standard of the Metric system??????? > >In my experience these things are application-specific. Some of the more > >widespread applications have widespread standards - MacOS introduced > >command-C, command-X and command-V many years ago, and some variation of > >this > >is now pretty common on non-unix systems (which tend to use shift-delete, > >shift-insert or control-c, control-w, control-y). Beyond that, it seems > >pretty hard to get unification. and this is before one begins to try to figure out the motives of M$ and why they intentionally fly in the face of convention when they continually change the standards, sometimes standards they themselves recently set Bob ASCII Ribbon Campaign accessBob NO HTML/PDF/RTF in e-mail accessys@smartnospam.net NO MSWord docs in e-mail Access Systems, engineers NO attachments in e-mail, *LINUX powered* access is a civil right *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# THIS message and any attachments are CONFIDENTIAL and may be privileged. They are intended ONLY for the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, Please notify the sender as soon as possible. Please DO NOT READ, COPY, USE, or DISCLOSE this communication to others and DELETE it from your computer systems. Thanks
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