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Skriven 2006-06-08 14:12:00 av Robert E Starr JR (2645.babylon5)
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On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:19:56 +0000 (UTC), Amy Guskin
<aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote:

>>> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 11:34:14 -0400, Josh Hill wrote
>(in article <fngg829t5jrejno0jq4nq7dc76ch8r9vgv@4ax.com>):
>
>> On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 15:46:37 +0000 (UTC), Amy Guskin
>> <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:09:35 -0400, Josh Hill wrote
>>> (in article <ipjd82djbtbbsovf987e947srn8a1tticp@4ax.com>):
>>> 
>>>> Well, no, but when MS includes something like a free browser most
>>>> people /do/ keep it, as witness the fact that even today the vast
>>>> majority of people use IE rather than the probably superior Firefox.<<
>>> 
>>> This is absolutely correct.  As a web designer, I work with the most 
>>> extremely average of users every day, and nobody, but nobody - nobody who 
>>> isn't a programmer - ever uses anything but the browser that comes 
>>> installed 
>>> with their system.
>>> 
>>> My favorite illustrative story is when I was trying to help a customer with

>>> something dumb - it was probably how to do a hard refresh, as 90% of the 
>>> time 
>>> the problem is that my customers say they can't see the changes I've made 
>>> to 
>>> their site <g> - over the phone, and what I was telling them to do wasn't 
>>> working.  So I asked again, "Uh, you _did_ say you were using IE, right?"  
>>> And the customer said yes.  So we went around a few more times, and it 
>>> _still_ didn't work.  So finally I told them to look at the top of their 
>>> screen, to the right of the blue apple, and to tell me what it said.  Yup, 
>>> you guessed it: Safari.
>>> 
>>> But she was so used to having IE that she just called _any_ browser 
>>> "Internet 
>>> Explorer."  (Then there's the AOL users and _their_ browser problems, and 
>>> the 
>>> fact that they can't receive .jpg attachments from Mail.app...)
>> 
>> Or that when they send /you/ images they often have no file extension
>> .. . . arggghhhh! <<
>
>Or they name the image files in conversational text, with spaces and 
>capitalization....!!!

Me too.

Paul.
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