Whitecrest said:
See this is where we disagree. I think it is an important part of the
web.
You wan't to turn it into TV?!? Why not just watch the boob tube then?
Ahh you admit that you can do something other than searching for product
information. You are making progress.
I'm a big gamer. I don't use a browser interface for it though. If I
did, I'd want it to work in any browser with the settings that I choose.
And not all of the privacy invading technologies that I have to
download and install to "make it work." If you want to make a game, do
so. If you want to write something to be displayed in a browser, use
the standards so it is useable in any browser with any personal settings
requiring no changes.
Well, drive people like you away, the other 80 or 90% of the world gets
excited about the movie. But here is a clue, they already know that,
and guess what, they don't care.
That's part of my point. Too many businesses these days have a "there's
10 more fools/suckers like you just around the corner" attitude towards
customers/potential customers. I just mailed (US Postal) a long
complaint to a major company with attitudes like that. The web site and
their phone "services" were totally useless in doing what I wanted to
do. I let them know that if there were an acceptable choice, I'd no
longer do business with them at all. It's attitudes like yours that
perpetuate that kind of business. Like the rest of the sheep, you are
allowing business to do as they wish.
That is your opinion and you are welcome to it. But others enjoy stuff
like this, and here's another clue, they can use the web to if they
want. You don't own it.
I most certainly don't; with the exception of my little LAN portion of
it. But neither do the idiots that want to turn it into just another
idiot box like TV. I have the right to and will voice my opinion that
the garbage doesn't need to take over. We already have television for
the sheep masses. Must we allow this medium to be taken over by big
business too to serve yet more idiocy to the sheep masses? I think not.
I'm not saying that you can't have games, music, or flash, all the stuff
you seem to want a browser to do. Just don't *expect* it in a
technology that isn't designed for it. Write the application for that
stuff and I'm sure there is a market. The "web" isn't necessarily HTML,
it is just the machinery and wiring that connects us all together. Let
the HTML applications (browsers) view HTML. Come up with something else
for all the flash commercials or put them on TV.