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(Morten Reistad) writes:

Amen. They seem to have this idea that if you don't have the identical combination of hardware and software that they do, you're some sort of inferior being who's shirking his responsibility to "upgrade". (I put "upgrade" in quotes because often these designers are exploiting various brain-damaged aspects of Windows and-or their particular box, which when fixed cause the web page to break.)

IMHO most of the Web is just glorified television anyway. Unfortunately, most of the lusers at which it's aimed think that's just fine.

That plus just plain laziness. The designers can't be bothered "wasting" the time needed to make their sites universally usable. And no doubt Microsoft is giving them all sorts of excuses as to why this is a good thing (which it is for them, of course).

I wish this just applied to Web sites. But the software that came with my sister's digital camera (Kodak, so you know who to avoid) is an absolute piece of crap, and the non-resizable screens make it quite baffling for her when needed buttons wind up off the edge of the screen.

The other thing to drill into their pointed heads is that the more people who can view their web sites, the more potential customers they have. On the other side of the coin, the more people they turn away by making their sites unusable, the more business they're losing.

This stuff used to come second nature to marketroids. I guess they've fallen for the same flash & dazzle they feed to their customers.

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