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Posted by dorayme on 10/26/06 08:11
In article <9lk0k2585j8m8j4ihp9dnkgo6tcm5cgn2l@4ax.com>,
Spartanicus <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Gιrard Talbot <newsblahgroup@gtalbot.org> wrote:
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> >> I suspect that you are offended when you encounter a message that asks
> It is rude and offensive to ask users who don't use IE to change their
> browser to IE, it is no less rude and offensive to ask IE users to
This is a hysterical point of view. It is not rude or offensive
by mere fact of a recommendation that a site is best viewed in
such and such and that this is recommended. It might not be very
practical or effective. But it is not rude. This is really quite
beyond the pale. I am rude. GT is not.
> >You'll even find at least 20 links to download IE 6. It's been like that
> >for years too.
>
> I ask visitors to my library to change their clothes if I don't like the
> colour, but I also point them to places where they can get clothes in
> that colour, so that demonstrates that I am not pushing my preference
> onto them.
>
This is ridiculous. The colour is totally without connection to
the library. If the library were somehow special and needed some
item that helped in its navigation or if the visitors were
required to remove their shoes because of the silence thereby
promoted, we would be at least getting to the ball park in the
analogies...
> You fail to grasp the fundamental point: it's
> none of your bleeping business telling others what they should care for
> in a browser.
>
It is not necessarily a point so etched in stone that needs
grasping... It is not obvious at all that it cannot be made, in a
good natured friendly way, the website maker's business. I am not
recommending it, I just don't think your pronouncements are any
kind of argument.
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dorayme
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