[WEB4LIB] Re: Netscape 6

[Thomas Dowling]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Gellis Shapiro" <barbara at gate.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 11:46 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Netscape 6


>
> You said, "If I can't get any useful information from
> > the page I know the author/publisher is clueless and its not worth
> > going any further."
>
> Well, not every user insists on using the lowest tech browser possible,
> just as not every user uses the latest browser available. Judging the
> author to be clueless, and the information on the page to be useless, is
> going a little too far, IMHO.
>


Ah, but the clue at stake is knowing how to make a page *work and look*
the way you want in the target user environment, but still *work* in any
other user environment.  I would hardly say that, for example, Eudora Web
for a Palm Pilot is the "lowest tech browser possible"--it just operates
in a significantly different display environment than IE or Netscape on my
21" monitor.  If a page works only on my desktop, but I'm in an airport or
hotel room using my Palm, a designer that doesn't meet this criterion, for
my particular needs, is clueless.


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu