Mark Roseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
>> > Maybe that's the key difference between the mindset of a
>> > mathematician and that of an engineer -- I consider reaching over
>> > 95% of visitors to be _quite good indeed_,
>>> What surprises me is that marketing types will accept turning away -
>> what's the current internet user base? 200 million? - 10 million
>> potential customers without a complaint. Or maybe they just don't get
>> told that that's what's going on.
> Obviously we all agree the effort to support both is significant. The
> question is not so much "do we turn away 5%" as "do we use the effort we
> do have to provide a better experience for the 95%, or to provide a
> slightly worse experience for the 95%, and an ok experience for the 5%".
You elided the paragraph where I pointed out the third alternative:
provide a better experience for the 95%, and an ok experience for the
5%. WWW technologies are designed to degrade gracefully - it's easy to
take advantage of that.
<mike
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