New online index to Beazley's tutorials

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Mon Jan 7 19:39:19 EST 2002


Jeery is free to produce whtever he wants. And I am free to NOT to go to
his site if I don't want to. If Jeery wants more users he will produce more
useable version.

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 07:16:02PM +0000, dsavitsk wrote:
> "Oleg Broytmann" <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1010286068.13969.python-list at python.org...
> >    I see the problem - too much Javascript. I use a browser without
> > Javascript, but with frames. Can you and/or your friend to rewrite the
> > thing and make it useable for JS-less browsers? (links/lynx/w3m).
> >    I am not against Javascript, but in my not so humble opinion every site
> > that uses JS should provide a lighter version without JS. I know it's
> hard,
> > but I do it all the time (I am professionl web programmer).
> 
> not quite right.  every site that the user pays for as a service should
> provide a usable interface or be willing to give a refund.  browsers are
> free. you can download a more up to date one from www.mozilla.org. 'jeery c'
> was more than gracious with his time.  if a user is unwilling to enable
> javascript, that user does not *deserve* a javascript free version.  if a
> non-javascript user wants to create a competing version, they are free to do
> so, but it seems unfair to demand it of others.
> 
> you may do it all the time, but as a professional, you are paid to make your
> interface usable to a particular client.  jerry c seems to have invested a
> huge amount of time, and he made a nice index.  feel free to improve it
> yourself, or to ask him nicely, but suggesting that he *should* have done
> anything seems wrong.

Oleg.
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     Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd at phd.pp.ru
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.




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