G'day Steve,
On 3/19/06, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@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