[conspire] Browser 'Wars'

[Ruben Safir]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 04:47:56PM -0800, Micah Lee wrote:
> On 02/10/2011 04:21 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> > No.  You are going out of your way to misread what I said.
> > I didn't say JavaScript is undesirable.  I said _gratuitous_ JavaScript
> > is.  In so many words.  Verbatim.  (I could have added:  Dependency 
> > without graceful fallback is incompetent.)
> 
> Agreed. Javascript dependencies that don't gracefully fallback are
> obnoxious.
> 
> >> So you would prefer to run Flash to watch streaming video than use the
> >> new open web standards that make Flash irrelevant?
> > 
> > An irrelevant question that is unresponsive to what I actually said.  
> 
> Sorry, the <video> tag is a good example of big improvements coming to
> modern web browsers that help rid us of proprietary crap like Flash. And
> I consider streaming video to be "flashy".


No - it isn't.  Boink...the fact that you consider streaming vido flashy
is itself very telling of your lack of expertise in this matter.

Ruben