re: Requirements for using HTML5 websites Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 5:26 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) gewg_ wrote: ||You may have encountered sites that use M$ Silverlight for video. ||Win9x will NEVER have the ability to view those videos. || Arminius wrote: |As a matter of fact I haven't | Good to hear that you don't patronize sites built by those particular idiots. There are some formerly clueless businesses who dabbled in that junk but who have gotten that particular M$ monkey off their backs. http://google.com/search?q=Silverlight+MLB |but so what, there already is enough porn on the net. | http://google.com/search?q=Silverlight+Olympics+NBC http://google.com/search?q=Silverlight+CBS http://google.com/search?q=Silverlight+Netflix ...and when governmental agencies use proprietary technologies rather than open standards, that makes me especially angry. http://google.com/search?q=Silverlight+"Library-of-Congress" Contrast that with http://google.com/search?q=Norway+"open.standards" (Open standard) HTML5 is an alternative to (proprietary) Silver-Lie and (proprietary) Adobe Flash. |Another post from a thread too old to bother with. | ...in a forum for an obsolete OS ---which still occasionally gets new/repeat visitors (who, apparently, haven't heard that it's obsolete). ...and (for those with reading comprehension problems), the effective date for Google's change was August 1, 2011. ...and YOU did bother. |Clearly you have too much time on your hands | Says the guy that follows me around like a puppy and posts to threads he claims are "too old to bother with". Written in response to: re: Requirements for using HTML5 websites (Arminius: Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 4:17 pm) Responses to this message: re: Requirements for using HTML5 websites (Arminius: Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 6:15 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] IE6 being phased out at Google (sekirt: Mon, Feb 1, 2010, 4:35 am) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (gewg_: Mon, Feb 1, 2010, 11:14 am) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (jack hall: Thu, Feb 4, 2010, 8:39 am) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (gewg_: Thu, Feb 4, 2010, 12:26 pm) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (sekirt: Thu, Feb 4, 2010, 5:25 pm) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (jack hall: Thu, Feb 4, 2010, 6:28 pm) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (gewg_: Fri, Feb 5, 2010, 10:43 am) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (Arminius: Sun, Feb 7, 2010, 6:31 am) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (gewg_: Sun, Feb 7, 2010, 12:09 pm) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (sekirt: Sat, Feb 6, 2010, 6:51 am) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (Arminius: Mon, Feb 8, 2010, 7:45 am) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (gewg_: Mon, Feb 8, 2010, 1:32 pm) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (Arminius: Tue, Feb 9, 2010, 4:40 am) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (gewg_: Tue, Feb 9, 2010, 9:29 pm) Spoofing the User Agent in IE6, in Firefox, and in Opera (Ed: Thu, Feb 11, 2010, 4:10 am) re: Spoofing the User Agent [won't solve the problem] (gewg_: Thu, Feb 11, 2010, 10:04 am) re: Spoofing the User Agent [won't solve the problem] (douglas: Sun, Feb 21, 2010, 1:38 am) re: Spoofing the User Agent [won't solve the problem] (gewg_: Sun, Feb 21, 2010, 11:32 am) re: Spoofing the User Agent [won't solve the problem] MORE DETAILS (gewg_: Tue, Jul 5, 2011, 7:31 pm) Requirements for using HTML5 websites (gewg_: Thu, Aug 11, 2011, 12:05 pm) re: Requirements for using HTML5 websites (Arminius: Thu, Aug 11, 2011, 4:17 pm) re: Requirements for using HTML5 websites (gewg_: Thu, Aug 11, 2011, 5:26 pm) re: Requirements for using HTML5 websites (Arminius: Thu, Aug 11, 2011, 6:15 pm) re: Requirements for using HTML5 websites (gewg_: Thu, Aug 11, 2011, 11:21 pm) re: Requirements for using HTML5 websites (Arminius: Fri, Aug 12, 2011, 6:13 am) re: Requirements for using HTML5 websites (gewg_: Fri, Aug 12, 2011, 2:37 pm) re: Spoofing the User Agent in IE6, in Firefox, and in Opera (gerald Keene: Thu, May 5, 2011, 12:09 pm) re: Spoofing the User Agent in IE6, in Firefox, and in Opera (Ed: Mon, Jul 18, 2011, 6:06 am) re: Spoofing the User Agent [is a waste of time for this] (gewg_: Mon, Jul 18, 2011, 1:46 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum