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Wow, that is some truly masterful backing away from the "the best web browsing experience you’ve ever had" claim without appearing to notice doing it. Humpty D
by nooneelse 16y ago
Wow, that is some truly masterful backing away from the "the best web browsing experience you’ve ever had" claim without appearing to notice doing it. Humpty Dumpty skill level, at least, the word "best" means just what you want it to.
- jodrellblank 16y agoI've never said it's the best experience, or offered my support to that claim. What position, that I used to hold, am I backing away from?
- nooneelse 16y agoPerhaps I misread the dialectic somehow. I was taking the point back to the thesis of the article (that Jobs was quite wrong in his characterization of best browsing ever), a thesis which g0atbutt was supplying support for. Support which you seemed to be trying to counter or undermine in you comment with things like "Just because it doesn't do exactly what you want doesn't mean it's handled badly - it still does what it does gracefully and without errors or slowdowns" and "It does after all not claim to be able to hold pages open indefinitely...". As you were countering the support being given for the thesis, I took it that you were attacking the article's thesis (thus defending Jobs' characterization). But then your comment moved the goal for what constituted "best" so far that it functionally proved the thesis of the article. I apologize that I was overly eager to point this oddness out and did so badly.