- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:08:56 -0500
- To: Vincent Berger <vincent.berger@afp.com>
- CC: www-forms@w3.org
Vincent Berger wrote: > People are not so stupid. They know how to install plugins. > Some do. Many don't. Few if any know how to do it right. My wife has two masters degrees and she can't install a plugin. My father's a lawyer and he can't. My two brothers probably can, but I wouldn't swear to it. My mother probably could but she's a math professor. I could if I really wanted to, but for whatever reason I still can't seem to keep them installed. Every once in a while I do get around to installing Flash or the PDF plugin, but a few months later it's gone again. Why? Frankly I can't be bothered to find out. The world is not composed exclusively of programmers (Thank God!). Too may programmers have social skills too limited to enable them to see how the rest of the world thinks. What's obvious to them, ranges from difficult to impossible for most normal people. AJAX works because it's accessible to normal people. Anything that depends on a plugin isn't. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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