M.J.Ray cited, amongst other things ...
>
> Platform incompatibilities
> If I had a fiver for each time I've been emailed a MS Office
> file... I do not have Office. I do not have any Micro$oft
> software. I need to tattoo this onto the insides of some
> lusers' eyelids. Fortunately, catdoc and strings work wonders.
Forgive me if I've misunderstood, but I'm assuming that this implies a
service is being offered whereby other people's docs are coded and put
online by a specialist/team. The pros and cons of this are perhaps
another debate, but I think if this is the service being offered, then
saying "you can't use X" is a mistake on the web-teams part. If you make
preconditions on which tools the authors can use, you are creating
barriers - I would bet that if a survey to general users
asked "what are the top ten problems with your WWW management", one of
the top items would be something like "not letting us use the software
we know best". I think, in terms of publishing information,
web-management should aspire to transparency in the eyes of the user
community, Platform incomaptibility should be something the web team can
transcend - this should not be a concern of the users (but please note I
speak theoretically!).
Cheers,
Colin
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