On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 04:23:50PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
> George Ferizis wrote:
>
> ..snip....
>
> > It's nice to see that you are more then willing to give your own
> > biased opinion, but feel the need to make a personal attack when
> > people disagree....
>
> It wasn't personal sunshine. I just don't believe in dictation by the
> majority, which is the total argument you invoked.
>
> To paraphrase someone's current sig "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb
> voting on lunch" I.E. I don't give a F^&K about the majority.
>
> Netscape has some bloody awful faults, font handling being one of them,
> and I have no interest in defending it and I wasn't. It is a simple fact
> that if you use it, you will have trouble with many WWW pages.
>
> Some of this trouble is caused by WWW pages that are all about
> image/appearance. I would go so far to say that 90% of business WWW
> pages have actually no business rational whatsoever and display no
> business sense. They are designed and built by people with no business
> commonsense who value image over function and fail to follow basic
> design rules.
>
>
> As well, an app doesn't have to cater for the majority to be good. It
> just has to be good at something and people will use it. I use netscape
> because it does infolder sorting quite nicely.
>
> Actually Netscape has no troubles on text only sites.
>
> Of course my opinion is biased, I've been using computers for 16 years
> and I know that GUI, efficency and productive do not belong in the same
> sentence.
>
You've been using computers since i was 3 years old then. I've only got 10 years under
my belt (only!), most with Windows, but with my 3 year experience with Linux I know
that as well. :-)
Nothing beats a quick shell script to do a tedious job for you (except maybe a quick
perl program)
>
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