[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 18-01-2010 09:00, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article<4b53cebf$0$273$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
> 	Arne Vajhøj<arne at vajhoej.dk>  writes:
>> On 14-01-2010 11:45, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> If that is what it takes to sell products, then yes.  Save the fancy
>>> crap for your personal web page.
>>
>> If the calendar on the wall said 1996, then HTML 2.0 would be fine.
>>
>> But the web is no longer just simple static presentations with
>> a submittable form.
>
> If that is enough to bring the customer in and sell him your product,
> what else is necessary?

That is where the web has changed.

The web is no longer just about selling stuff that you also produced
before the web by adding an extra channel.

Today web is also new business providing services that is
by definition web based.

>> Some very advanced stuff is put on the web. For business.
>
> Why?  Because someone outside your business said "You just gotta do this!"

No to make more money.

>> Google is selling browser based word processing. Their chances
>> of succeeding with that using pure HTML 2.0 would be big fat
>> zero.
>
> Aand you are assuming here (as Google hopes people will) that his
> is, in fact, a good idea.  As I said, as near as I can tell Google's
> main product is snake oil.  Sadly, a lot of people are buying it
> just like they used to flock to Dr. Good's Traveling Medicine Show.
> Just because Goole said so doesn't make it a good thing for your
> business. I would prefer to see the corresponence and data that
> my business relied on to remain under my control.

You may think that.

A lot of people think that way.

But companies are actually switching to that model.

MS knows that as well. Office 2010 will come in a web
based (low end) version.

Arne