Warp wrote:
> 
> Xplo Eristotle <xpl### [at] infomagicnet> wrote:
> > As the content creator, it is MY right to decide how my content is to be
> > presented.
> 
>   I agree with this (even though I perhaps would have worder the rest of
> the paragraph more nicely... :) ).

With regard to the VFAQ page the content is not, strictly speaking, entirely
all yours. Many of us have contributed to the content of the page. Along
with those contributions it was always presumed that the content would be
displayed in such a manner that every POV-Ray user could benefit from that
content without the handicap of browser dependent authoring restrictions.
I appreciate you making the compromise you did for the sake of the VFAQ and
welcome you to present the rest of your site however you wish.

When I make criticisms about peoples design decisions on POV-Ray websites I
only do so because I care about the POV-Ray community and their accessibility
to resources and information that can help them in their quest to become
better users of the program. If you think I put in all the time and effort
on my links collection for my own sake you are mistaken. I could easily pare
it down to a hundred or so sites I might frequent and dump the rest. I put
in that time and effort for the sake of the POV-Ray community and will continue
doing so for as long as I can. If I were to compromise that effort by putting
all of the links in a browser dependent CSS script then I wouldn't be doing my
job and at least part of the community would suffer as a result. That would
be unconscionable to me. That is pretty much the point that Thorsten and I
have been arguing from the beginning but people in this tread have been unable
to see. In 5 years or so when everyone has had a chance to upgrade to comparable
software then these problems will likely go away. In the mean time it is
important to recognize them and if at all possible make allowances for these
differences.

-- 
Ken Tyler

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