- From: Tonico Strasser <tonico@hotpop.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:33:04 +0200
- To: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Orion Adrian schrieb: > My mother, who isn't involved in this debate, has stated on several > occasions that she loves what Microsoft did when they became a > monopoly. I asked her why and her answer was surprising. She said that > when Microsoft became the standard, everything worked. She no longer > had to worry about this working or that working. She no longer had to > deal with multiple programs trying to interoperate: everything just > worked. > > This is still the foundation of Microsoft development. It is their > slogan and it appears on their products: "Play for Sure". Users don't > care about how developers do it, they only care that they do. They > hate that there are subtle or major differences between applications. > They don't understand it and they don't care. From a typical user's > perspective, IE is correct and Mozilla, Opera and Safari are broken. > Why? Because features work on IE that don't work elsewhere. Is this > because authors coded for IE? YES!, but it's a moot point since users > only care about sucess. My father is also not involved in this debate, and he is very happy with his new sans-Microsoft OS, everything he needs works very stable (and I can support him more efficiently). So what's your point? ;) Tonico
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