Gerard Meijssen wrote:
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I have read the posts about Firefox and the
problems that we have
supporting Internet Explorer. Would it be an idea to suggest that
Wikimedia is best experienced with Firefox / Opera / .. I am myself a
fan of Firefox, it really increases my productivity using two screens
with 9 tabs on average. That is what the Firefox experience is for me
:) Seriously though, when we do not allow MP3, would it not make
equally good sense to suggest that our content is best experienced
not using IE ?? Needless to say, we would continue the support for IE !!
It only needs to be a small statement on our main page or on our user
portal ...
Thanks,
GerardM
Hello,
There is an effort to spread firefox usage at:
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/
Basicly the idea is to ask people to put a firefox banner on their
website and track the number of click and downloaded firefox through
the banner. Material is available with source code at:
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=affiliates/homepage
Wikipedia being NPOV I don't think we should enter the war. Moreover
saying "this site is best seen with firefox / opera" will just mean to
IE users that we are lazy webmasters that didn't want to put any
effort in supporting multi browsers (which is false, ask gwicke about
css tweaking).
So basicly, it's a good idea for freeness, but bad for NPOV :o)
When comparing Firefox and IE, many things can be said that are not POV.
Firefox has better and more functionality, it has shown itself to be
more responsive compared to IE regarding fixing known security issues.
An US-American governmental organisation has suggested not to use IE
because of its security issues. Firefox is more compliant to standards.
Contrary to other organisaations who are not capable enough to create
standard comformant web-sites, we do support IE.
As you only quote part of my mail, one reason that is left out is; we
support .ogg sound files and we do not *allow* .mp3 files. This is
because we want to promote open standards. Supporting open standards is
exactly what we achieve when we promote Firefox. When one of the leading
websites (us) informs the public that there is something good over the
horizon ... Why would we not support browsers who are better standards
compliant ??
Yes, I know spreadfirefox; 2 million downloads in 10 days :) So many
more to go..
Thanks,
GerardM