[REBOL] Re: Serial Communications - GPS Sings!
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 15-Mar-2002 8:25
My goodness, Terry,
Such a wealth of opportunity, I hardly know where to begin,
so I'll simply address my own assumptions (grouped by topic).
Terry Brownell wrote:
> Looks like Netscape 6 supports floating frames. Maybe time to
> upgrade your reasonably common and up-to-date 4.73 browser?
>
I had assumed that someone who felt he has something important
or worthwhile to say would want to make it accessible to the
widest possible audience, instead of having barriers to entry
affecting parts of the audience.
I had assumed (based on my own experience) that it isn't hard
to create HTML that is browser-neutral.
> (4.73 is common, if you consider < 12 % of the status quo as
> being common.)
>
Without debating the statistic, or the phrasing within which
it is presented...
If one out of every eight people who ate at a particular
restaurant contracted food poisoning, then I assume it is
reasonable to report as "being common" that their patrons
become sick.
> Also in response to your "not to be picky" response re:
> Windows Uptime API... it has the words "Windows" in the
> subject... and considering 96%+ of all OSs being used are
> windows flavours, then if the platform isn't mentioned,
> windows should be used by default and everything else
> should have a "REBOL/Command >>on Unix<<" type statement.
>
Without debating the statistic...
I had assumed that someone who was actively working with a
language that is presented and defended by its creator(s) as
platform neutral would at least respect (if not actively
support) that goal, especially in the context of a mailing
list devoted to that language.
Thank you for clearly and effectively demonstrating how
unrealistic my assumptions were.
-jn-
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