G'day Steve,
On 3/19/06, Mark Gallagher
<m.g.gallagher(a)student.canberra.edu.au>
wrote:
You need to approach Wikipedia in good faith, and
the best way to
establish that faith is to browse with Firefox. It's the choice of
Phil Welch, Mark Gallagher, and Willy on Wheels!
Firefox! It's what's for dinner.
A little uncalled for? Especially when you're asking someone to go to
a significant amount of additional effort to support a feature which
is probably required by very few people?
No. There are legitimate reasons for people to browse without images on
(being blind is a rather good one), and blaming the victim of our own
carelessness is *not* appropriate.
Now, I'm not clear on whether this Captcha is
displayed every time
you make any contribution, or only when registering an account, but
if it's the latter, then it seems almost *everyone* could manage to
get images to display once for the purpose. Blind people aside, of
course.
People on old computers that can only run Lynx? People on poor
connections? People in a work environment that enforces "no image
browsing"?
Now, it may well be that we *need* to use captchas and other things that
break in browsing environments other than
the-best-browser-on-the-most-modern-OSes. But tt's one thing to say
"gee, we're sorry you can't register an account, but we have no choice,
because of vandals and that", and another entirely to say "get a better
browser and stop being difficult, you jerk".
Cheers,
--
Mark Gallagher
"What? I can't hear you, I've got a banana on my head!"
- Danger Mouse
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