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Re: Lowest Common Denominator (was: Re: Lego.com - new look)
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Sun, 17 Oct 1999 19:44:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Todd Lehman writes:
> [...]
> For a site like Yahoo!, it certainly does make sense to welcome and
> accommodate even the most infrequent ingredients rather than locking out all
> but the most frequent or popular or common ingredient.

Whoops, I didn't mean welcoming and accommodating the most infrequent
ingredients per se -- glittery things like Shockwave or RealAudio, for
example.  I meant welcoming and accommodating browsers which happen to
support special or infrequent ingredients like Shockwave or RealAudio,
but not actually using those infrequent ingredients.


> In the case of the
> new TLG website, it looks like they locked out all but the most infrequent
> ingredients (JavaScript and Shockwave, both of which turn many people off,
> but which, as I understand it, are virtually required to properly use the
> new site).

Oh, this is getting too confusing.

--Todd



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  Re: Lowest Common Denominator (was: Re: Lego.com - new look)
 
(...) Yeah, maybe I'll stop now. :) (27 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: Lowest Common Denominator (was: Re: Lego.com - new look)
 
(...) Oh...sorry, I left out the "limit as n approaches infinity" part. ;-) (...) I wonder that too. At first glance, they seem *very* incompatible. I'm not an English scholar, so I can't really say. But I think what may have happened is that the (...) (27 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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