Re: Macromedia Flash plugin 6 released for x86 Linux

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From: "Kevin McConnell" <kevymac@yahoo.com>
> --- "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123" 
> > I haven't been bitten by that one yet, but you'd be
> > surprised how many 
> > sites use Javascript.  Lynx doesn't handle that at
> > all.  The Gnome 
> > Accessibility Project is coming along, so I should
> > be OK with JS and 
> > possibly Flash, eventually.
> 
> But my point being that, we all know you wouldn't be
> very happy if you went and visited a site that you
> couldn't know what was going on simply because
> everything there was graphical. I'm an old schooler
> who believes that the internet wasn't really created
> for sales and pictures, but more for the distribution
> of information... useful information at that.

Kevin, it's nice to dream. Alas, sales information and
"pretty pictures" are "information", too. And it is
information that leads to big income for some people who
use it skillfully (and some as*holes who use it abusively.)

{o.o}   'Tis my dream, too. Reality intrudes. <sigh>



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