I'm sorry, but what you "approve" or not for display on my browser has absolutely no relevance. The adding of links happens at the client, and is the prerogative of the client. What if I wrote a little proxy that sat between my browser and the server, and changed every word (not part of a hyperlink) into a hyperlink to the Merriam-Webster dictionary? There would be *nothing* you could do about it.
Let's face it, once you publish on the web, you have *no* editorial control whatsoever. The client does with your HTML as it damn well pleases.
I Seem To Recall (tm) that Microsoft requires manufacturers to use color-capable hardware if they want to install Windows on their products. Probably for that wonderful user experience. And beyond Windows, the market gets small real fast.
There are other reasons a company might do this, apart from treating their own employees badly. The game industry is highly competitive, and individual employees hold a lot, a great lot, of sensitive information in their noggins.
Imagine your company is about to release The Next Big Thing in games, and you're in fierce competition with other companies in your field. It's not unimaginable for a competitor to lure away a couple of your key developers by offering outrageous salaries. This would seriously set back your development efforts, possibly putting you behind your competitor. Your competitor, then, can finish their own product and beat you to market. The raided developers can just be let go as soon as the competing product is ready (they might not even have done anything meaningful at their new company). After all, the competitor didn't hire them to gain their skill and expertise, but to deprive you of it.
Hansje.
Cardboard box? You spoiled-rotten johnny-come-lately! In my days, we didn't have any cardboard boxes, or even punch cards. If we wanted any bytes transported, we had to carry them over ourselves, bit by bit, through the snow and ice, uphill both ways. All we had was the bare ones and zeroes, and sometimes, when the money was tight, we didn't even have ones! But we were happy for the zeroes we had, and for any ones we could get. Why was that? Because we had learned to appreciate the value of zero through the suffering we had to go through.
Young upstart ingrates. You've no idea how good you've got it.
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I'm sorry, but what you "approve" or not for display on my browser has absolutely no relevance. The adding of links happens at the client, and is the prerogative of the client. What if I wrote a little proxy that sat between my browser and the server, and changed every word (not part of a hyperlink) into a hyperlink to the Merriam-Webster dictionary? There would be *nothing* you could do about it.
Let's face it, once you publish on the web, you have *no* editorial control whatsoever. The client does with your HTML as it damn well pleases.
H.
I Seem To Recall (tm) that Microsoft requires manufacturers to use color-capable hardware if they want to install Windows on their products. Probably for that wonderful user experience. And beyond Windows, the market gets small real fast.
There are other reasons a company might do this, apart from treating their own employees badly. The game industry is highly competitive, and individual employees hold a lot, a great lot, of sensitive information in their noggins.
Imagine your company is about to release The Next Big Thing in games, and you're in fierce competition with other companies in your field. It's not unimaginable for a competitor to lure away a couple of your key developers by offering outrageous salaries. This would seriously set back your development efforts, possibly putting you behind your competitor. Your competitor, then, can finish their own product and beat you to market. The raided developers can just be let go as soon as the competing product is ready (they might not even have done anything meaningful at their new company). After all, the competitor didn't hire them to gain their skill and expertise, but to deprive you of it. Hansje.
Young upstart ingrates. You've no idea how good you've got it.