Certainly, a web designer must be careful in using FrontPage and only use
its generic functions or you will create pages unreadable by NetScape.
Norm
At 06:14 PM 12/14/00 -0500, you wrote:
>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/
>