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Old November 18th 03, 12:28 PM
Dylan Smith
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In article d7aub.226068$Tr4.669834@attbi_s03, Jay Honeck wrote:
I don't mean to sound rude, but if the sites are invisible to you because of
YOUR choice of browser, how is this anyone's problem but yours?


If the problem is that a *world wide web* site isn't really following
W3C standards, it is NOT the fault of the browser: it's the fault of the
software used to create the website, or if coded by hand, the person who
created the website. It is perfectly possible (and not that hard!) to
make a website that renders correctly on everything from a Sony-Erricsen
Symbian phone to Konqueror running on a 4-processor Solaris system.

Also note that mobile phone based web-browsers are going to become
increasingly prevalent. For a business in the hotel industry, mobile
devices will be VERY important to you, as people will probably use their
GPRS or 3G phone to look up a hotel when they show up to Iowa City
airport on a cold and rainy night. Most of these phones don't run MSIE -
they run the Symbian browser. Write Microsoft-only web pages at your
peril!

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