<font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Arnie Shore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shoreas@gmail.com">shoreas@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">MS didn't get to their position in the marketplace by being dumb. They offer development tools that really sound and look good - Silverlight is an example - and it takes a pretty determined outlook by the developers/managers to avoid their use in the interests of openness.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>For me, 50% of my computers at home run Windows, 50% run Linux. I like to use both - both have their own strengths and weaknesses. Use of proprietary formats like Silverlight just means that 50% of my computers won't work. I can live with it, but I don't have to like it, especially when I can stream video from Youtube and other sites just fine from all of them. <br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">It's not new. Way back when, IBM did that kind of thing in their proprietary extensions to standard COBOL, and few of us understood or even cared.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I don't see that as a reason not to care about browser compatibility today.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>IMO: Live with it. AS<br></blockquote><div> <br>I think everyone for the most part is living with it, but it goes both ways. When an upgrade like IE9 doesn't work on sites like <a href="http://aprs.fi">aprs.fi</a>, users of <a href="http://aprs.fi">aprs.fi</a> can still use Firefox - so folks need to live with that as well.<br>
<br>Lee - K5DAT<br></div></div>