[Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

[Jason LaPier]

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> [mailto:euglug-bounces at euglug.org] On Behalf Of roger
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 12:43 PM
> To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group
> Subject: RE: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow
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> Another thing to think about on this issue, a lot of 
> Government agencies depend on Adobe PDF and some even use 
> Flash.  (Can't recall the ones using Flash.  Ah, think NASA 
> uses Flash for the kiddie section?)

And they have a button at the top that says "non-flash version" (the
site looks pretty much the same in either version). You don't need
Adobe's Reader to view PDFs, there are a ton of open-source pdf readers.

> 
> Also, for an example, NASA uses Windows codecs.  
> 
> What good is an O/S if it can't browse the web?
> 
> When somebody in poverty, gets pursued by the IRS and they're 
> excuse is, "I couldn't afford the money to buy an o/s.  So my 
> free one can't view your website."
> 
> I'm just throwing some lame excuses out here without good 
> examples of website urls, but just trying to give people to 
> chew on for second before just giving into a patent issue and 
> denying kids the right to view the site on nasa.gov. :-/  
> (... they are using Flash aren't they??)

Yeah, since you said, these are pretty much lame excuses. Considering
any government-funded site is going to be required to be accessible,
there's always going to be a Flash-less version.

Flash is great for animation and all that but if you build a website
that requires flash to perform a widely used function, lotta people
gonna be screwed. If they're too poor to own a new computer, they get to
discover how much of a resource hog Flash is anyway. 
 
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> Fri May 4 12:42:32 PDT 2007
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