[Eyecatcher-general] Re: Debian "eyecatcher" Project

W. Borgert debacle@debian.org
Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:42:21 +0000


On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:01:08PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> When the problem is "No magicpoint available" converting this to
> "no firefox available", how does this help at all?

The difference is, that Firefox is relatively common these
days (e.g. most of my colleagues use it one their Windows
machines), while I'm not aware of any machine with
magicpoint installed.  Btw. sometimes HTML with a bit of
ECMAscript is even viewable using MS-IE :-)

> Most computers have a PDF viewer these days, so providing a
> presentation as PDF files has some advantages.  However, if it only
> runs fine in non-free software, that's not the way Debian should
> proceed.

Right.

Cheers, WB