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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Jan 12, 2006 8:45AM

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Daniel Champion wrote:

> we can try to provide a temporary solution for those who need it,

Remember that things tend to become permanent, unless designed to be
permanent.

There is a lot of "holdover" stuff on web pages: constructs that
were once regarded as necessary and perhaps avantgardistic but are now
just reminders of old times and old technologies. You know,
"Press Control-D to bookmark", "best viewed on Netscape 3.0", etc.

Whatever you put on your pages now will probably be there for years.
Even if you plan to maintain your pages, you might (as most human beings)
plan to do more than you will actually do, and you might not be the
maintainer after a few years.

--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/