{"id":213,"date":"2001-07-25T22:04:48","date_gmt":"2001-07-26T03:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=213"},"modified":"2001-07-25T22:04:48","modified_gmt":"2001-07-26T03:04:48","slug":"functionality-versus-universality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/07\/25\/functionality-versus-universality\/","title":{"rendered":"functionality versus universality"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know this is a circular reference to ScottAndrew’s reference<\/a> to my red-green discourse below, but he makes a good point that is less relevant to me as a Canadian but worthy of mention. At least for the US folks, the choice is no longer yours<\/a>. I think there are similar issues here.<\/p>\n

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Chris at dithered recalls<\/a> the TVOntario of his youth. I didn’t watch TVOntario much in my own youth (heck, we needed a special UHF converter to get channels above 13 on our B&W tv!) but I watch a heck of a lot of it now with my kids. TVO Kids <\/a>is absolutely the best children’s programming available, and I’ve seen all the British stuff too. The Nook, The Crawlspace, the Bodsquad, Patty, Phil, Gisele, the two Julies, Hatatoposit, Tumbleweed – what a lineup, and every mouthful a taste sensation.<\/p>\n

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“We can’t let people fill out this form more than once”<\/font>
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however…<\/i>
\n“We must support users who turn off cookies”<\/font><\/p>\n

“We must have client-side validation”<\/font>
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however…<\/i>
\n“We must support every browser ever known to man and people who turn off javascript”<\/font><\/p>\n

“We must have cool animation”<\/font>
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however…<\/i>
\n“No plugins, must support pre-v4 browsers<\/font>”<\/p>\n

“We are committed to using this Java applet”<\/font>
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however…<\/i>
\n“We must support people behind draconian corporate firewalls”<\/font><\/p>\n

“It has to look exactly the same in every browser”<\/font>
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however…<\/i>
\n“Pigs might fly”<\/font><\/p>\n

You can’t have it both ways. Functionality or universality. The choice is yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know this is a circular reference to ScottAndrew’s reference to my red-green discourse below, but he makes a good point that is less relevant to me as a Canadian but worthy of mention. At least for the US folks, the choice is no longer yours. I think there are similar issues here. Chris at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}