On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:04:42 -0500, HallMarc Websites
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On the face of it, if you are writing a PHP application for others to use,
*forcing* a particular behaviour on them (on *their* own machine) is
probably not a good idea. Why not let the user deal with this as
they see fit?
One can go way too far trying to ensure a uniform experience among users,
who may not even care what other users are experiencing. One size *never*
fits all.
On the face of it; Apple needs to stop mucking with what already
works! The issue is this, Apple in all of its wonderful glory
decided to drop support for pdf via the acrobat plugin. Didn't
bother to tell anyone about this. You now need to use their Preview
feature ONLY if you want to view a pdf in your browser. Otherwise
you get nothing but a big white empty screen. No notice, no warning,
just a big white screen. Know what I've been getting from my
clients? Grief! I'm the one writing the code for their site and
since Apple can do no wrong it's me that must be the idiot.
[>]
Sorry, just sick and tired of Apple trying to bring everything under
their tightly locked proprietary software mitts.
As to why do I want to do this... because it is better than telling
my client that they need to give their clients instruction on how to
view something they have been comfortably using and viewing without
issue until recently.
Well, okay, I can understand how Apple changing how something works
affects things downstream if developers and subsequently end users
have to change the way they are doing something they have been used
to. As I never (ever!) downloaded the adobe acrobat reader software on
my mac, I never experienced this. As far as I know, when I get a PDF,
it's always downloaded and I view it in Preview or Skim.
The more cardinal point that the one I gave above about giving end
users choice is never force an end user to change how they do
something they're used to doing.
My point is also largely philosophical. On practicalities, one does
what one must.
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Tamara Temple
aka tamouse__
May you never see a stranger's face in the mirror
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