[REBOL] Re: Serial Communications - GPS Sings!
From: tbrownell:shaw:ca at: 15-Mar-2002 10:51
Goodness gracious, Joel,
> 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.
The figures speak for themselves, Netscape is dead, or at least dying. But
how can that be, they were THE browser at one point? One reason would be
surfing a site, like mine, and discovering that Netscape doesn't work there.
Should we not put Flash, forms, tables etc on our sites to keep the Mosaic
1.0 users happy? At what point do you draw the line between wider and
widest?
I can only imagine that folks use Netscape for it's openness. And they
sourced it because people were leaving in droves for IE, and as a last ditch
effort to have some (even 4%) of the market share. I don't care what
browser I use, as long as everyone is using the same. In this case IE wins.
Do I care? Nope.. like 95% of the population, couldn't care less.
If it can't cross platform, then dump it for an alternative. View/Pro and
Rebol/Command scripts are cross platform, but not when it comes to API
calls, which was the discussion at hand. I haven't seen any Unix flavoured
API type calls posted? Are the open sourcers out there suffering from
windows envy?
(Ooh, low blow :)
Frankly, I wish some new OS/Hardware scheme would come onto the market with
a batch of "killer apps" that would make everything to date look sick, and
would force any sane person to adopt it immediately. But of course, we
wouldn't because you'd still have someone using DOS, and well, we would'nt
want to gimp our "widest possible audience" would we?
I read an article on slashdot that showed folks leaving Linux for the new
Mac OS.
Great, just great.
> Thank you for clearly and effectively demonstrating how
> unrealistic my assumptions were.
Anytime.
TB