Re: Give that bird a mouse...

Jim ...

> For instance, consider this newest customer. May not be a lot of 'em
> (yet!), but heck, we cannot afford to exclude ''anybody''.
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/nl/0708/parrot.html

With all due respect, I believe your concerns may be premature. Al least for
some of us.

During a brief scan of the article you refer to, I saw nothing mentioned
that would seem to exclude basic HTML or JavaScript in the browser being
planed. Therefore, it would seem the only caution here would be verbal
content.

In as much as many of us--well, in my case at least--fall within this
general catigory of "parrot brain" we should have little trouble
communicating. In fact, many of the "admirers" of my pompous and verbose
efforts--both with my novels and elsewhere--have suggested rather strongly
that my attaning the literary skills of a four year old would, not only be
far beyond practicallity, but a feat well in excess of my wildest dreams.

In a similar vein ...

There has also been some talk of insuring that our efforts not exclude WAP
phones, http://www.wapdrive.net/  However, a quick look at that site would
reveal the technoligy so limited that any attempt to actually "see" a web
site such as we think of web sites, is still in the "joke" stage. You even
have to use their language, for goodness sake--which is not quite HTML.

So--you may in fact--be right. We might well, as an alternative, be better
off directing our efforts toward the entertainment of parrots.

Ain't Sundays boring, though??
Best wishes
Ted Temer
Temercraft Designs Redding, CA
temer(at)c-zone.net
www.temercraft.com/
www.newsredding.com/



> The types of customers that we have to cater to continually expands. The
> young, the old, the power user, the disabled, the geek, the newbie.
>
> Knowing your customer is important as they types of customers we have to
> cater to on the web that  access your web site gets broader and broader.
>
> For instance, consider this newest customer. May not be a lot of 'em
> (yet!), but heck, we cannot afford to exclude ''anybody''.
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/nl/0708/parrot.html
>
> So, be watching your access_logs for this browser:
>
> "Parrot/1.0 [pt] (compatible; MIT 0.1; Linux 2.2.12-20 i586)"
>
>
> enjoy.
> --
>
>
> Jim Tom Polk -:- jtpolk(at)texas.net -:- http://camalott.com/~jtpolk/
> ''You might as well fall flat on your face as
>   lean over too far backwards.''      --James Thurber--
>    "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three
>           elements: energy, matter and enlightened self-interest."
>   - G'Kar  "Survivors"
>

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