On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:02 AM, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote: ..
Aan u verzonden door GerardM via Google Reader: Norwegian Websites Declare War on Internet Explorer 6 via Wired Top Stories door Michael Calore op 19-2-09 Several prominent websites in Norway are refusing to support the antiquated IE6 browser any longer, and have posted messages to IE6 users urging them to upgrade. The campaign has caught on, and is beginning to spread to other countries.
It make some sense. Internet Explorer is like a "webmaster tax", where the webmasters have to dedicate the 60% of his work to fix IE bugs. Another cost his hidden in the oportunity lost because IE "ban" features. Like, you will not use usefull features that can save time and enhance the websites, because are not supported by IE, and writting gratefull degradation code for it kill the original "time saved".
A campaing to upgrade browsers (not only IE ,but also Netscape, Opera, Firefox, etc...) is a good thing for the Internet, and what is good for Internet is good for Wikipedia. A cool way could be to suggest a user of a broken and old version of IE to upgrade to the next IE, the user of a broken version of Netscape to the next Netscape, etc.. that way you are not doing "politicis", but just tryiing to make internet a better world.
Since Wikipedia don't have banners, I don't see "space" to do that in wikipedia. but others sites may have a logical space to communicate this to his users. After all... "Friends don't let friends use IE" is exactly how Firefox spread.