Posted by Richard Sexton on 02/17/06 06:28

In article <Xns976C7428ED602arbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121>,
Adrienne Boswell <arbpen2003@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "hol" <contact7@hol.gr> writing in
>news:dt2hhf$v5n$1@newsmaster.pub.dc.hol.net:
>
>> Hi Jonathan, thanks for the comments,
>>
>> The problem is that my customer wants the site visitors to be able to
>> download his CV as a word file. This doesn't happen automatically but
>> only when a user clicks the appropriate button on the main Flash site.
>> This button opens an html page that loads the word document. As you can
>> see I have to go through this procedure.
>>
>
>Tell your customer politely to stop wanting that.

Hahahahahaha.

I've been doing this since 1993 and lemme count the times THAT'S worked.

Um, zero.

>Always give the user (site visitor) a choice.

That works. Do it and don't bother to mention it. Tell them
"some poeple have macs and can't read it so I did this for free
for you".

What you usually find in the person knows 8 people and they
all have word and they think the entire interweb runs on word
and there is no talking them out of it because you're a dumb
techie and he knows his target market. The latter half of
this statement is actually often times true.



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