Plug-ins, including Flash

[Robert Kennedy]

--- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:
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>  
> What about the people who have marginal systems or
> connections, for whom the 
> plug-in alone is a significant load on their system?
> 
>  
> What about the people who are running a locked-down
> corporate computer?  Are 
> they going to call their IT department and say "I
> want you to load Flash on my 
> computer so I can browse this job search site"? 
>  
> If you want to dress your site up with special
> layouts and animation, go ahead 
> and use these things to "enhance the viewing
> experience", but don't rely on 
> them.   
>  
> If you make your content accessible only through
> propietary, closed-source, 
> non-open-standard software you shut people out, to
> say nothing of betraying 
> the spirit of the open source movement. 
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Hi All,

Case in point:

I recently went to a company's site to check an
animation of their chromakey product. I'm using IE 5.5
as provided by my agency. I am not allowed to download
any additional stuff for it. The site informed me that
I must update to the latest Windblows Media Player.

I sent them an email that explained the situation and
suggested a lower common denominator. I may have been
a bit sarcastic, but I -was- polite.

The following morning I received a polite reply
suggesting I should seek another, outside, computer to
view their sales pitch.

The polite lady neglected to clip out the line the
web-master added when he forwarded my message to the
sales department: "Do you have any suggestions what to
do with this jerk?"

Oh well?

Best,

Bob Kennedy

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