> What a load of crock! A long time ago, it was required that a man carrying
> a red flag walk in front of every motor vehicle on a public road. This
> hindered the development of motor transport.
Was this ever relinquished? Someone told me that this law still exists.
> Any requirement as the one quoted above will only hinder the development of
> the Internet and the World Wide Web.
I don't think so. It will cause HTML authors to write better pages, and make the WWW better.
> Java and Java Script are the way forward.
Yes, but they should still provide backwards compatability.
> If people are using antiquated
> browsers they should update them. If some text based browsers can't handle
> java and java script then the authors of such programs should update them.
> If they can't then users of text based browsers should leave the web and
> return to gopher and veronica.
I am sure that people would have got annoyed if Win95 came out, and Micro$oft said that no programs from your old
OS will work any more, you will just have to update the programs. If the authors of your old programs can't
update, then you should go back to using DOS. Your argument is exactly the same. People using Linux or shell
accounts really need correctly written HTML, or the pages are useless. Even Countrylink's woeful page is
infinately superior to CityRail's page if you are using Lynx.
> As for blind users of the web there is no reason why speech synthesing
> browsers cannot be developed that use Java and Java Script.
Not easily. And who would put the money up for the development?
-- David Johnson CityRail Guard trainman@ozemail.com.au http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman