I thought you might be interested in the following message I got from one of
our faculty members when I forwarded the message about Web access. The
Halloween Documents are quite interesting. Good ole Microsoft strikes again!
Linda

Linda Lucas Walling
College of Library and Information Science
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
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Phone: 803-777-2298
Web page: http://www.libsci.sc.edu/linda/walling.htm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Molyneux" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Linda L. Walling" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Web access problems, Java, etc.


> This is largely (but not completely) a function of the fact that Microsoft
> has virtually taken over the Web. There are standards in HTML and in Java
> but Microsoft uses the ruse of "improving" the standards to take them
> over--hence two javascripts and two HTMLs. Then amateurs use Microsoft
> products to produce Web sites that only other Microsoft products can read.
> It is too bad that the National Federation of the Blind went after AOL
> instead of Microsoft on this point.
>
> If you have never seen the Halloween Documents, you might find them
> amusing. http://www.opensource.org/halloween/