On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:01:57PM CST, Douglas P. McNutt <douglist at macnauchtan.com> wrote: : : It's the language that rots, not the browsers or the human : species, but it might as well be the software. We would be : better off with some communication standards that last a : generation but it's unlikely to happen. There's too much money : involved in assuring obsolescence. By changing the web I can : sell everyone a new computer and assure that his old one will : not be useful in the neighborhood school. : : Yeah. I'm 70+ and FORTRAN still works. Actually, the human species does rot. Things like language, browsers, money, the web... all these things are static and have no value until they are used by rotting humans. :-) -- Eugene http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/