ASX Script

[Jonathan Hutchins]

(Sorry if this is a bit windy, guys.  Jason and I have enjoyed a number of 
good arguments here, but lately he seems kinda cranky.  Maybe he's not 
getting enough sleep.)

On Friday 03 September 2004 12:24 pm, Jason Clinton wrote:

> I'll simply, more clearly point out that HTTP has long had a STANDARD
> for handling content distributed from a web server and further, for
> handing those links off to applications that can handle it. It's called
> MIME and I could be wrong but anyone that claims to have been
> administering Linux servers "since you were watching Barney on TV"
> (direct quote) should know that.

Linux servers are not necessarily web servers.

> claiming one minute to know better than everyone else and the next
> asking questions on topics that he ealier professed to be an expert
> over. 

So once expertise has been achieved, no more questions need to be asked?  I 
see many people who assume that a large body of knowledge is necessarily 
comprehensive - in other words, people who think because they know a lot, 
they know everything.  I'm not one of them.

> As it turns out, he knows nothing about HTML or CSS and was 
> just talking through his ass.

I know a good deal about HTML, and not much about CSS, which is not the same 
as HTML.  I wrote my first web page in about 1992, and still mostly stick 
with very basic, early standards, some of which are obsolete. 

> I am further spiteful because I offered to fix all of this two years ago
> and they weren't interested.

Maybe because you approached them a s a self-righteous "crusader" instead of 
actually offering to help.  When I approached them earlier this year, they 
were hard pressed for resources to work on the project, but interested in 
help, standardization, and reaching non-Windows users.

Thanks for the suggestion that using the correct mime type for the link might 
do the trick, however oblique it was.  I'll check that out, and maybe we'll 
get them straightened out.