Text 4505, 89 rader
Skriven 2005-11-13 02:38:52 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
   Kommentar till text 4504 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
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Hey CHARLES!

Nov 12 15:30 05, CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 CA> Interesting thing about 'standards', the W3C weilds the newest
 CA> 'standards' like a club and meanwhile webpages are 'broken' by
 CA> browsers that either were written prior to the new standards or
 CA> by programmers who chose to ignore them.

Or companies who contract programmers to ignore them.

 CA> The OGG and PNG
 CA> formats intended to replace proprietary sound/graphic MP3/GIF
 CA> formats were a long time coming and even now there is a good
 CA> deal of software that doesn't _fully_ support either OGG or PNG. 

What's your point?  Given that I am using a text browser by default neither of
those capabilities are wanted in the first place, and therefore if the httpd
can't handle outputting compliant html then the sending the unrequested formats
would be a big no-no ... would it not?

 MK>> They are too busy playing games to be bothered. Isn't why
 MK>> they install Windows? 

 CA> I think they install windows to earn money for
 CA> food/clothing/shelter? 

Hm.  I thought you said they were intellegent?  ;-)

 CA> I jumped from 300 to a USR 14400 baud (and it still works). 

I jumped from 2400 to 14400 and later beyond.  All the beyond modems were
externals as I never cared much for wasting a perfectly good pci slot on a
modem.  They all worked really good with Linux.

 CA> LINKS and LINKS2 do a great job maintaining a well organized
 CA> display. 

I don't think either of them existed back then.  I first heard of links in this
echo.  I think it was either Pascal or Francois who educated me about links.

 CA>>> Have you ever lurked in the sysop echos of fidonet? 

 MK>> I've been known to post in a few of them. Why do you ask? 

 CA> The vulgar language, hate-mail, accusations, etc. were an
 CA> education. Nasty bunch IMO. 

Bah!  A bunch of wimps if I ever saw wimps.  Sheeple ... every stinkin' one of
them.

 MK>> So what happened to them? 

 CA> They got old. 

 MK>> And what happened to them? 

 CA> They got old. 

Everything is getting old.

 MK>> How many Windows users actually use it? 

 CA> Quite a few AFAIK. 

Not any around these parts, or at least that I've seen.  They ALL have IE
though.

 CA> I don't really know what Hyperterminal can do, I've only used
 CA> it a half dozen times while trying to help others get it
 CA> configured for their system. 

I've seen it in action but on dialup.  Probably the best a terminal app can get
in WindowLand, which really isn't saying much I know.

 CA> Well I rewrote the code and changed the colors to what I wanted
 CA> them to be so yes, the background is black. :-) 

That is best methinks.  Easiest on the eyes.

 CA> I did pick one blue that is too dark.

I hate when that happens.

Life is good,
Maurice

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