Re: Comet Cursor and the concept of Spyware (was: Cool Technique)

In a message dated 10/27/00 12:42:24 PM Central Daylight Time, 
kransdell(at)squishedmosquito.com writes:

<< ll that said, I suppose it's all a matter of (very, usually) personal
 preference.  I'd like to think that many people are prudent and
 sophisticated enough to accept the consequences of our choices, and
 intelligent enough to know that *somebody* out there pays for our "free"
 gizmos and gimmicks.  The people I worry about are the new folks who want
 one of everything, load up their systems with it, then can't understand why
 things either don't work right, or why their mailbox is suddenly full of
 bizarre stuff they neither asked for nor wanted.
 
 Kind of looping this thing around and back on the original topic... I think
 that clients can have the tendency to fall into that "I want everything!"
 trap and it is our responsibility to educate them to the potential
 consequences.  Plug-ins, add-ons, applets, blahblahblah... they all fall
 into the same category as "when is it appropriate to use Perl, or will
 javascript do just as well... but then again, what about browsers that don't
 support js, etc etc and on it goes".   For some projects, the gizmo-du-jur
 might be perfect, but the client's decision to use it might be different if
 they clearly understood the facts.  If the client still thinks it's perfect,
 then forge ahead and have a little peace of mind that it (hopefully!) won't
 come back to haunt you in the future.
 
 Karin >>
Very well said, thanks!  The sites I have used Comet Cursor on, are my 
private sites, not my client's.  I thank you for the imput, good food for 
thought, me thinks. **smile**

~~Lanice~~

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