WWW Inventor On Microsoft's Browser Tricks

Unipuma writes: "Tim Berners-Lee gives his views in an interview with Silicon Valley about the latests blocking of the MSN website for most other than Internet Explorer browsers. 'I have fought since the beginning of the Web for its openness: that anyone can read Web pages with any software running on any hardware. This is what makes the Web itself. This is the environment into which so many people have invested so much energy and creativity. When I see any Web site claim to be only readable using particular hardware or software, I cringe - they are pining for the bad old days when each piece of information need a different program to access it.'"

Comments

Get over it, "content" web is a lost cause

[Ars-Fartsica]

However, the purpose of tables is not to take care of layout and design, it is to present data matrixes.

Thats fine if you are detailing lab study results...but this approach is inane if you are designing a site for consumers.

Re:Unreadable sites

[aquarian]

You, pal, have your head up your vice-grip ass. The 10 year olds who visit the Skechers site aren't looking for specs and facts, they're looking for visual stimulation and inspiration. They wanna see pictures of shoes, and cool people doing cool things while wearing them. That's advertising, and it even works that way with anal-retentive jerkoffs like yourself- they just give you guys anal-retentive ads, and you lick them up just like the 10 year olds. Whether it's a twirling shoe with skate music playing in the background, or a picture of a BMW rolling through the Black Forest with Wagner playing in the background, it all works the same way. Image, and image association, is king. Information, my ass.