On 05/09/07, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
I was a Windoze and Adaubi advocate (and I mean the word advocate here) not two years ago. I am running Linux on my machine and working with The Gimp even on a professional level today. I do not believe that "forcing" the "free" upon people is the way to go. Interess them, poke them with it, make them understand. Be pedagogic and patient. Don't "force" them. Teach them your "principles" rather than scare them with "policy".
It'll lure people in nicely, I think. I think Wikimedia is one of the most significant sites for content in PNG form, for instance. If we can get Greg's player everywhere for Ogg Theora video, that'll make that no-friction, and of course downloaded Theora files play fine in VLC just like downloaded FLVs from YouTube do.
I won't mind if a user using IE is faced with a white screen with a link to use firefox :P
I do, if that means this person is hindered in their access to the content we host.
Having stuff work properly as best as possible in all browsers is essential (with graceful degradation). Even in Lynx you can download the images. Though having cool stuff (e.g. useful Javascript facilities) that only work in proper browsers (because IE is so horrible to code for - I know so many webmasters who curse IE's stupidities) is an incentive to upgrade, because there's a reward at the end.
- d.