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Subject:Re: Windows version number references in docs From:"Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:34:21 -0700
"Goober Writer" <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote in message news:216751 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
> > On a serious note, what's worse that specifying OS
> > versions is specifying
> > browser versions when developing Web applications.
>
> That's when you go to dev and tell them to just throw
> in some ActiveX controls... that narrows the list down
> quite nicely. ;)
No! No! I must have Java! :)
OTOH, the past few Web applications I've documented have been IE only, and
where I am now, there are ActiveX control being used. Which means I have to
document how to configure IE to make sure the ActiveX controls are not
blocked.
And the Help system is DHTML/HTML, no Java.
>
> =====
> Goober Writer
> (because life is too short to be inept)
>
> "As soon as you hear the phrase "studies show",
> immediately put a hand on your wallet and cover your groin."
> -- Geoff Hart
>
Y'know, I've seen this quote in the sig often, but I'm skeptical of its
claimed source. As I recall--and I'm not going to dig out my books and read
through them to check--this looks suspiciously like a line from a Robert A.
Heinlein book. If I had to guess, I'd say it, or something very much like
it, was one of Lazarus Long's aphorisms in the wonderful "Time Enough for
Love."
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