[Novalug] Administrivia: don't use URL shorteners

James Ewing Cottrell III JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Sat Mar 7 15:49:43 EST 2015


Boy...More Jerkiness!

JIM

On 1/24/2015 6:58 AM, Rich Kulawiec via Novalug wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:40:48AM -0500, Dan Arico via Novalug wrote:
>> What about government sites like the IRS? A lot of business filings
>> have to be done on-line and a lot of them require not only Adobe but
>> also IE for access.
>
> Yes, there are sites like that, designed and built by ineducable morons
> who have failed to grasp even the first principles of the web.  I could
> say (I have said ) a lot of snarky things about that, but today, let me
> just quote this guy:
>
> 	"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X'
> 	label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days,
> 	before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a
> 	document written on another computer, another word processor,
> 	or another network."
> 	-- Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996
>
> Quoted here:
>
> 	Viewable with Any Browser: Campaign
> 	http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
>
> In practice, such sites nearly always work with sensible web browsers
> and open-source PDF software.  The ones that don't can nearly always
> be fooled via:
>
> 	User Agent Switcher
> 	http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/
>
> ---rsk
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