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Re: [PLUG] OT: ...compatible browser or else!
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On 23 May 2002 at 15:26, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> > > Probably right, but let's do the cost benefit analysis. I'm
> > > betting that if they sold one auto, they could get a site that was
> > > more compatible. It's not like it's too expensive to do this
> > > right, so we can forget about that. It's not like millions of
> > > people have to be affected, either.
> > >
> > > If the people who did the job were really qualified to begin w/
> > > then we wouldn't be having this problem.
> > >
> > > Here's my calculations: better site cost = $0
> >
> > No. Better site cost = amt of time spent rewriting x hourly cost of
> > the HTML designers ... which, if they outsource their web page,
> > could
> ^^^^
>
> > be noticable, especially if they have to examine multiple sub-pages.
>
> My point was that if this were valid html to begin w/ then it would
> have been accessible all ready. They were writing in MS-only
> protocols. So they should have said that they were writing MS-only
> pages not _web_ pages.
>
> Calling an MS-only page a _web_ page written in _html_ is a lie.
Again - immaterial. Whether they deserve the name or not, that's the
way they're written. And it will cost money to change. And from
Mazda's point of view, the rewriting won't bring in enough more money
to justify the time and expense to change the page. Else it would
have been changed already.
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