[K12OSN] PD for staff (really OO)

[Petre Scheie]

How ironic, since one of the fundamental underpinnings in creating the Web was 
the idea that the user shouldn't need to have a specific tool for accessing 
documents.  A 'browser', which anyone could implement, was all that was supposed 
to be necessary.  And if you code to W3C standards, it doesn't really matter 
which browser a user has.

I have little love for Macs, too proprietary for my tastes, but it would 
probably be cheaper to move your handful of developers to Macs than to move 
hundreds (thousands?) of users to PCs.

Petre

Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote:
> SASIxp, in the case of my district.
> 
> Also, we have certain Web apps that apparently depend on ActiveX (our 
> development team uses Microsoft dev tools).  Thus, they run only on 
> Internet Exploder.  This is apparently being done to "force" the Mac 
> lovers, of which there are many in our schools, to move to Windows (our 
> many thousands of Macs typically have Netscape, but not IE, installed).
> 
> --TP
> 
> Andrew Fournier wrote:
> 
>> Mission critical? What win software is mission critical in a school?
>> A. Fournier
>> On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 13:16, Nakashima wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 05:00:58PM -0400, Barry Solof wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>> I *knew* somebody was going to suggest that!
>>>>>
>>>>> If only there were a way to magically replace all the doze apps in my
>>>>> network overnight.  You bet I'd switch us over to ltsp.
>>>>>       
>>>>
>>>> This always makes me wonder, how did school IT deal with moving, say,
>>>> from Apple II and the like, to Win3.1 or Mac, back when that transition
>>>> took place?
>>>>
>>>> -bill!
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Technology systems were not as entrenched or mission critical back then,
>>> so it was a less difficult transition.
>>> --Peter
>>>
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