Mathias Schindler wrote:
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:01 AM, HÃ¥kon Wium Lie wrote:
Andrew Gray wrote:
However, I also think the web should not be hostage to IE6/IE7
forever. Some designers have declared war on IE6 for this reason:
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/norwegian-websi.html
There has been a debate about this recently at wikitech-l:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-February/041587.html
And I think I remember that there were proposals earlier to add at
least a infobox on wikipedia sites with text like
"It looks like you are using an Microsoft Internet Explorer. You can
get better results when you use a web browser instead, here are some
suggestions [link-ff], [link-op], [link-chr]"
I would find such a notice insulting, and so would a lot of users with
minimal net sophistication. Sure, there's a problem with off-the-shelf
computer systems that come with IE prepackaged, but many of those users
approach this problem with the phobia that changing browsers will cause
a complete system crash.
I can understand how the nationalistic and marketing interests of
Opera's home country would want to wage war on Internet Explorer, but
that doesn't change the fact that some form of IE retains a plurality of
users. I'm using Firefox myself (meaning that I would not receive the
message), and have no technical arguments in support of IE, but we still
need to distinguish between serving Microsoft and serving Microsoft's
users. It's not for us to suggest that there is something inferior
about someone who uses IE.
Ec