[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 30-12-2009 11:47, Paul Sture wrote:
> In article<y0c_m.14037$U5.212322 at newsb.telia.net>,
>   Jan-Erik Söderholm<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>  wrote:
>> JF Mezei wrote:
>>> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> It is definitely possible to have a SL app that does not
>>>> work with ML.
>>>
>>> And is best to just say "NO" to Microsoft trying yet again to force itw
>>> own proprietary standard onto the world. Just disable "Silverlight" and
>>> don't want any content distributed in that format.
>>>
>>> If people want to distribute content they will choose a format which is
>>> accepted by the community.
>>
>> What is your definition of "the community ??
>> If I'm not wrong, 95% of the "community" run Microsoft OS and
>> tools so disabling those tools cuts you of from a large part
>> of todays world (at least the online world).
>> It's up to you I guess but it seems a bit silly.
>
> I remember a job agency using that 95% figure to justify rewriting their
> web site to cater for MSIE _only_.
>
> They forgot that their largest corporate customer didn't run MSIE.

IE only principle is dead today. FireFox and recently Chrome
have changed that.

Arne