{"id":856,"date":"2005-10-06T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=856"},"modified":"2005-10-06T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T07:12:00","slug":"youve-got-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ve got pictures!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;m grumpy today.<\/p>\n<p><code><b>To:  AOLPicturesHelp@aol.com<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Whenever my friends and family send me a link to a shared album through \"You've Got Pictures,\" I'm stopped by the message that I must use the Netscape browser to access their pictures.<\/p>\n<p>If this is because of a technical difficulty, youur web design team should be fired.  Their inability to make a site that works with any browser except Netscape is evidence of incredible incompetence.  <\/p>\n<p>The other option, that this is a deliberate choice, is even worse.  Why bother to put a product online and then, right off the top, cut your market 90% or so?<\/p>\n<p>On reflection, it's probably the latter.  I sense some hare-brained idea about forcing consumers into using the Netscape brand of AOL.  The fact that your company would deliberately break your online service so as to force me to use a particular browser is insulting and infuriating.  You're making the world a worse place.  Please stop it.  <\/p>\n<p>If you want people to switch to Netscape as a browser, make a better product.  If you want people to use your online service, make it easy to use.  <\/p>\n<p>Either way, you've got a pack of imbeciles loose in the headquarters.  Best to root them out before they make any more decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;m grumpy today.<\/p>\n<p>To: AOLPicturesHelp@aol.com<\/p>\n<p>Whenever my friends and family send me a link to a shared album through &#8220;You&#8217;ve Got Pictures,&#8221; I&#8217;m stopped by the message that I must use the Netscape browser to access their pictures.<\/p>\n<p>If this is because of a technical difficulty, youur web design team should be fired. Their <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=856\">You&#8217;ve got pictures!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}