On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, GamePrg. wrote:
} Despite the greatness of WarpNet, I must speak in favour of the millions of
} people who do not have access to java/javascript enabled browsers because
} they simply don't exist on their machine.
}
} This is not a flame, but I think it's quite silly to make a commercial
} shoppe and then only have it be able to be used by ppl who use Netscape. Not
} even Internet Explorer works. This means lots of ppl won't be able to shop
} at WarpMart unless they can get access to a PC somewhere with Netscape and
} javascript.
I agree completely. Even though I use a Mac, I had only Netscape
2, which gave me all sorts of interesting error messages while it flailed
trying to interpret all the Java script. So for the love of Warp, I
downloaded Netscape 3.02 in all its glory. Now I get no error messages
and the computer speaks to me saying "Warpnet" in a whispery
vocoder-esque voice upon visiting the site. Neat... but necessary? Also
when the mouse travels over the menu buttons, I now get a "bleep" sound.
Cool, I guess. It seems there must've been a way to incorporate these
(and many other) features without giving non-Netscape 3.0 users zero
content. For instance, I personally love frames but early versions of
Netscape don't understand them, so a good site should use the <noframes>
option to allow the challenged users a decent experience also. I'm sure a
lot of people here don't want to mention these problems since it would be
almost a sacrilege to anger Warp in the IDM world... even I was
relunctant, but some changes to the site are really needed -- more
content, less platform based elitism -- there I said it... phew.
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