On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Håkon Wium Lie howcome@opera.com 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:
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]"
There were many objections to this, including the question how to deal with browsers that pretend to be the MSIE in order to access pages that otherwise wouldn't let them visit the page and the omnipresent neutrality mantra.
Mathias