Squeaker eager to play Croquet ( GAH! Flash! )

Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus schwa at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Nov 6 02:29:30 UTC 2002


The thing is, if Yoshiki hadn't let the cat out of the bag (thanks,
Yoshiki), no one would have known about the site except on a
need-to-know basis.  Since there was no "[ANN] Croquet!!!"
message, I don't think that we should complain too loudly about
deficiencies in a private development webpage.  

Joshua


On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:46:41PM -0500, Gary Fisher wrote:
> I took your reply as humor, but in case I was mistaken, I believe the "they"
> Daniel referred to is "JAVA/SHOCKWAVE/FLASH," not the unflashed folks.
> 
> Given the scope and vision of Croquet I'm not sure advanced web features are
> out of place, though normal practice is to include a "plain vanilla" index
> page for those who, by choice or need, use browsers of limited capacity.
> Reading the .pdf and website info it seems unlikely, though, that Croquet
> will appeal to, or even function for, those who cannot or will not use
> graphically rich user interfaces.
> 
> Gary Fisher
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Rueger" <m.rueger at acm.org>
> To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 6:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Squeaker eager to play Croquet ( GAH! Flash! )
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > Daniel Joyce wrote:
> >
> > > Not all of us folks have JAVA/SHOCKWAVE/FLASH, and they should NOT be
> > > required to navigate a website.
> >
> > You are not required to navigate a website.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> 



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