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On David Emberton's "The World Wide Web is not enough"

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Amazing. Just amazing. After reading miles of intimidating CSS tutorials and JavaScript tips and tricks, written by terrorist 8-graders, I felt so bad about my inability to keep up with the latest and greatest in web design... Nice to see someone who has no reservations about saying: yes, I am incapable of learning and I refuse to accept the obvious...
Wake up. NN4 is dead. It was killed in the browser war.
If you don't agree with new standards, suggest an alternative.
If you don't want to live with the direction the Web is going, retreat to CD-ROM authoring. Or use floppies (sorry, very limited PDF support), and FedEx.
Seriously? I came to this country eleven years ago with high school English (as a foreign language, naturally) and a degree in Industrial Design from the school nobody ever heard of in a country, which doesn't exist anymore. I was 30. I never touched a computer before 1992, neither I ever tried to order coffee at McDonalds (the attempts very soon proved futile). I first heard about the very existence of World Wide Web sometime in 1994-96.
If I could do it, you can, too. The only choice is to keep up, or be extinct.

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