Re: A fuzzy OPINION<Brick and Broom>

At 12:46 PM 2/20/01 -0500, Captain F.M. O'Lary wrote:
>Exchange the words "code" with "tools" and "browser" with "canvas" and I'm
>afraid the argument that using this stuff is any kind of good idea doesn't
>hold much water in my OPINION.

Well, that is true, if you continue to perceive the web as a single 
solitary *canvas.* But, I've had a little experience with some alternate 
canvasses.

I once sold paint, so I can take your tool example and show you some 
perfectly nice, washable, durable eggshell finish paint that people could 
use to paint their living rooms. Unless that living room was in an 
apartment building, then I'd shake up a 5 gallon bucket of the cheapest, 
flattest paint we had, oh, about $49 (as opposed to $110 for the good, 
washable paint) and know full well that we'd be seeing the customer again 
-- next time a rental unit needed painting.

While the tools are radically different, they both accomplished the same 
goal: the room, i.e., canvas,  was covered with paint.

Although, I think both customers probably used a sprayer instead of a brick 
or a broom.

8-)

Standards and recommendations are important. I won't argue that. But, 
again, the choice of a tool will ultimately depend on the desired result.

~Tamara

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