Well I pretty much agree on not relying on the user agent string. The crown example of this being stupid web sites putting up notices that some site is only visible with IE to "increase" preformance/experience whatever... (I rest my case)
However, I do respect some webmasters attempts to unify the site layout by for instance presenting the browser with a customized CSS file. In theory this should not happen because every browser would just stick to the standard, in the real world webmasters want their sites to look nice. That is, unless some particular webmaster incorporated to much IIS, dot-net framework, asp, (or whatever) in his site and thus implicitly decided that MS knows best, in which case he propably don't give a f*** about standards.
By the way, I really like the "some (but not full) CSS 2.0 support" in the feature list. Geeh, microsoft appearently found it easier to urge everyone to prepare for IE7 instead of just complying with the standard.
This whole reminds of my stupid danish goverment that wanted to collect license/tax from every PC's just because you could install a TV-card - no matter if one was installed or not. At least they gave up on that one:-)
Anyway I don't think it's clever to keep adding bandwidth to the backbone networks just to enable people to watch the news on the tube. Don't be too lazy to turn on the telly. MP3's are the limit.
Still -- and for the next years -- not *that* many people is having this kind of access to Internet. Admitably: we are going there -- but not for the years to come -- so in the mean time don't waste time/money/bandwidth on something that has yet to be developed so much for the gain of such a limited number of people.
Don't get me wrong: you can't stream/download all the movies etc, you want to, but this is still such at poor technology that we shouldn't just be throwing bandwidth after it to make it work. (That reminds me of this big company I know that is too lazy too optimze it's programs due to the fact that hardware becomes faster.)
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Yes, of couse it's a joke. And the punch line goes last: "Note symbolic links are an NTFS feature."
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Usually, as if this was 'invented' by microsoft
Well I pretty much agree on not relying on the user agent string. The crown example of this being stupid web sites putting up notices that some site is only visible with IE to "increase" preformance/experience whatever... (I rest my case)
However, I do respect some webmasters attempts to unify the site layout by for instance presenting the browser with a customized CSS file. In theory this should not happen because every browser would just stick to the standard, in the real world webmasters want their sites to look nice. That is, unless some particular webmaster incorporated to much IIS, dot-net framework, asp, (or whatever) in his site and thus implicitly decided that MS knows best, in which case he propably don't give a f*** about standards.
By the way, I really like the "some (but not full) CSS 2.0 support" in the feature list. Geeh, microsoft appearently found it easier to urge everyone to prepare for IE7 instead of just complying with the standard.
This whole reminds of my stupid danish goverment that wanted to collect license/tax from every PC's just because you could install a TV-card - no matter if one was installed or not. At least they gave up on that one :-)
Anyway I don't think it's clever to keep adding bandwidth to the backbone networks just to enable people to watch the news on the tube. Don't be too lazy to turn on the telly. MP3's are the limit.
Still -- and for the next years -- not *that* many people is having this kind of access to Internet. Admitably: we are going there -- but not for the years to come -- so in the mean time don't waste time/money/bandwidth on something that has yet to be developed so much for the gain of such a limited number of people.
Don't get me wrong: you can't stream/download all the movies etc, you want to, but this is still such at poor technology that we shouldn't just be throwing bandwidth after it to make it work. (That reminds me of this big company I know that is too lazy too optimze it's programs due to the fact that hardware becomes faster.)
Then all the rest of us can start reading the comments again. That'll be the day!