Ralesk wrote:

Please! Let's all return to the 6-bit ASCII set, everything else is bloat, and unsupported by older systems.

Nobody is advocating that - certainly not me. But where there are perfectly acceptable alternatives that are nearly universal (read: ASCII quotes and hyphens), then we should use those instead of slightly fancier alternatives.

Please, also, keep your Netscape 4 and watch it break every standard and recommendation that W3C proposed.

I use Konqueror 3.1.3, which IIRC is more standards compliant the IE. However many people still use their pre-installed versions of Netscape 4 or whatnot because that is what came with their computer. Most of these people simply want their computer to do things for them; they don't care about things like browser versions and compatibility. Therefore, in their view, if a website they visit doesn't work on their browser their first thought is that the website is broken, not their browser.

So if their browser works fine on a Latin-1 wiki as is, then why should we change things to 'break our website' for them? They may also not have the time, interest, confidence, hardware, bandwidth, OS version or permissions needed to upgrade.

You shouldn't assume others are like you and don't mind upgrading things. Most people I know have /never/ upgraded /anything/! Everything comes pre-installed when they get a new computer.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)