On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Michael Dale<mdale(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
We need to inform people that the quality of
experience can be
substantially improved if they use a browser that supports free formats.
Wikimedia only distributes content in free formats because if you have
to pay for a licensee to view, edit or publish ~free content~ then the
content is not really ~free~.
We have requested that Apple and IE support free formats but they have
chosen not to. Therefore we are in a position where we have to recommend
a browser that does have a high quality user experience in supporting
the formats. We are still making every effort to display the formats in
IE & Safari using java or plugins but we should inform people they can
have an improved experience on par with proprietary solutions if they
are using different browser.
People should at least be informed that it matters.
I doubt most people are like Steve, running and trying different
browsers and discovering on their own which works best.