On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 03:37:41PM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>
> If you're happy with the status quo, great. But on the internet, if
> you live with the status quo, wave to everyone watching you in the
> rear view mirror, because nothing else is standing still.
I've been hearing predictions of the death of text since at least
1990. It hasn't happened yet. I'm looking hard, but I still don't
see evidence that it's going to happen any time soon.
People leave RootsWeb for a variety of reasons, but nobody has ever
told me that the inability to post HTML or binary attachments was
a factor. We strip multipart/alternative bodies so that only the
plain text goes through, and by golly, nobody complains. There is
no apparent mass exodus for the pretty blinking lights.
The simple fact of the matter is that people will go to get the
content they want. If they can only get that in HTML, they'll do
that, and if they can only get it in plain text, they'll do that;
and very few people consider it a serious problem if plain text is
the *only* resource.
If people are deciding whether or not to use your service on the
basis of whether they can get it in HTML, it's not a sign that HTML
is about to take over the world. It's a sign that you have boring
content.
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Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb.com lead system admonsterator
and Chief Hacking Officer
