On 21 11 2003 at 11:27 am -0500, tass wrote: >Again, no M$ lover, I. But "a quick thought overnight"????? >We're talking TWENTY ONE YEARS and (technologically) lifetimes ago!!!!!! > >I'm not pontificating the obvious here. I'm only noting that "the rest of >the internet" has already made the necessary moves to keep up with the >best of what all this tech can offer the user. >Do we hang on to ancient rules just because they once worked? >I certainly hope not.
No, but without standardization, one cannot have any reasonable expectation of confidence that two systems will inter-operate correctly. I'm not disagreeing with you in principle. All I'm saying is that in the real world, emphatic desire for sudden change is naïve. Anyway, this is off-topic. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
