MAILBOX

Yeah! Our First Angered Reader!

I was absolutely horrified by Jon Gould's article, if such rubbish can be called an article, entitled American in Denial. His statement "A boy growing up in the US today is more likely to die from a violent confrontation than from almost any known disease" is a lie, period.

- Gerry Roston, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Mr. Roston goes on to talk about specific details in Jon's article, but I haven't included them here since he has agreed to write a full blown rebuttal to American in Denial. Watch for it in next month's issue!

Milder Reader Feedback

Congratulations on your move to WWW! Best thing you could've done. We have to move beyond the "downloading" paradigm! Anyway, I enjoyed it in DOCmaker, but it's so much better in Mosaic...

- John Maxwell, North Vancouver, Canada

I read Teletimes over Mosaic and the photos are fantastic.

- John Pescatore, Rockville, Maryland, USA

Just saw Teletimes on WWW: Fantastic!!

The photographs in "The Keepers of Light" are beautifully done. But Mosaic and other browsers do restrict the range of colors used for inlined images, and especially when there are several they may not render as well as the originals.

Why not link the inlined image to the image file itself? It would still have the look-and-feel of the magazine and clicking on the image would send a new copy off to an individual external viewer where the colormap isn't compromised.

Your reader response card and the raw HTML files are all being received as one long line without breaks.

- Paul Mende, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Thanks for all of your replies regarding the WWW version of Teletimes. I am quite pleased with it despite the few minor problems. I am currently ironing out the layout and structure as well as attempting to solve the problem with Response Card. I hope to turn the Response Card into a fill-out form as soon as this feature is supported by the Mac version of Mosaic.