On Friday 08 December 2006 05:21, Joachim Schrod wrote:
"JE" == Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> writes:
JE> On Dec 8 2006 02:04, Joachim Schrod wrote:
To quote Jon Postel in RFC 761, the TCP definition from Januay 1980, the last two lines on page 12:
be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
Words to keep in mind, they served us well in more than 25 years -- RIP Jon Postel.
JE> You know where this RFC attitude brought us - Web browsers accepting JE> broken HTML, resulting in sloppy non-standard pages that display in JE> less than average of the browsers.
And, so what? It made the Internet usable for millions of users. And, for the record, I think that's a Good Thing(tm). I'm again that elitism that would have prevented my mother, aged 71, to be able to learn sending emails and surfing the Net three years ago when she retired. She will never understand that there's a difference between a Web browser and a Mail client, that's completely blurred to her, it's all `that Internet thingy' -- but so what? Who cares, as long as she can communicate with her relatives?
So it's better to just hop out to the computer store and get an old person a $600 phone (re computer)? My mom's 68, and she pays attention to what I explain about something like this and then corrects her behavior. She doesn't want to just have a $600 phone, she also wants to do many other things with a computer...and does! All you're perpetuating is laziness, stupidity and sloppiness, by telling anyone who has the money to just 'go get a computer and screw how things are and should be done, just do whatever the hell you want and be a grinning happy idiot'. -- Calling an illegal alien an 'undocumented worker', is like calling a home intruder an 'unwanted houseguest'. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org