I agree. Worse than MS. In fact, Netscape was worse than MS in corporate philosophy, as far as I can see. It just never had enough power to be as dangerous as MS, and was practically forced to do some good things (Navigator on Linux, Mozilla), but those were done in a half-assed way.
Need I list the failings? Look at the very origin of Netscape. Look at the disregard for standards. Bugs that never got fixed or even acknowledged.
But then, I've had to deal with Netscape's "implementation" of stylesheets. That's enough to turn anyone off.
Part of Sun? Yes. What does a (i)Planet revolve around, after all?
I'll concede your point, in the lack of any first-hand knowledge of the state of the VMS clustering today. I was, indeed, thinking about what they could do with the HSC "crutch".
I figured they would have got farther with the Ethernet clustering by now. They've been working on it for quite some time. 6 or 7 years, at least?
To show how really out of touch I am now with the Digital world, what's MC?
As far as the dial up part, if you're running Linux, it's called 'diald'. Dials up automatically when it sees the outgoing packets. I've got setiathome running on my home machine and using diald right now. It's really cool when you're sitting at home enjoying a brewski and you hear your computer dial out to get a big chunk of data from Arecibo.
It seems unlikely to me that anything rigid enough to be a federally enforced standard will both catch the significant majority of instances of pages that are difficult to read by handicapped persons, and not rule out a vast number of pages that are not actually difficult to read.
In other words, I don't believe it's just using certain tags, etc., that make a page difficult/easy to read for a handicapped person, anymore than it is for anyone else. That opinion comes from some effort spent in designing pages and imagining how they might "sound" through a speech synthesizer.
If they just mandate ALT tags, alternatives to scripting, etc., this will certainly improve the situation, but not rule out a large number of pages that will be hard to navigate.
But I'd be delighted if a visually impaired person weighed in on this issue!
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I guess you have your examples of where they're great and I have my examples of where they suck, is all. I don't see you meeting me point for point.
It's all pretty subjective in the end. Microsoft has done some good things also.
Which browser am I in right now? Netscape's of course! Hope that makes you feel better. :-)
Need I list the failings? Look at the very origin of Netscape. Look at the disregard for standards. Bugs that never got fixed or even acknowledged.
But then, I've had to deal with Netscape's "implementation" of stylesheets. That's enough to turn anyone off.
Part of Sun? Yes. What does a (i)Planet revolve around, after all?
I figured they would have got farther with the Ethernet clustering by now. They've been working on it for quite some time. 6 or 7 years, at least?
To show how really out of touch I am now with the Digital world, what's MC?
I just mentioned to someone today how much better VMS' system of logicals was than UNIX' filesystems. (Not to mention Win/DOS' lack of either).
Now, we're talking about clusters and a lock manager.
Amazing that a masterwork like the Distributed Lock Manager languishes in relative disuse. Open up the source to that, Compaq!
What leads you to that conclusion?
What does "DOS formatted" even mean in this context?
As far as the dial up part, if you're running Linux, it's called 'diald'. Dials up automatically when it sees the outgoing packets. I've got setiathome running on my home machine and using diald right now. It's really cool when you're sitting at home enjoying a brewski and you hear your computer dial out to get a big chunk of data from Arecibo.
It seems unlikely to me that anything rigid enough to be a federally enforced standard will both catch the significant majority of instances of pages that are difficult to read by handicapped persons, and not rule out a vast number of pages that are not actually difficult to read.
In other words, I don't believe it's just using certain tags, etc., that make a page difficult/easy to read for a handicapped person, anymore than it is for anyone else. That opinion comes from some effort spent in designing pages and imagining how they might "sound" through a speech synthesizer.
If they just mandate ALT tags, alternatives to scripting, etc., this will certainly improve the situation, but not rule out a large number of pages that will be hard to navigate.
But I'd be delighted if a visually impaired person weighed in on this issue!