On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Michael Dalemdale@wikimedia.org wrote:
We need to inform people that the quality of experience can be substantially improved if they use a browser that supports free formats. Wikimedia only distributes content in free formats because if you have to pay for a licensee to view, edit or publish ~free content~ then the content is not really ~free~.
We have requested that Apple and IE support free formats but they have chosen not to. Therefore we are in a position where we have to recommend a browser that does have a high quality user experience in supporting the formats. We are still making every effort to display the formats in IE & Safari using java or plugins but we should inform people they can have an improved experience on par with proprietary solutions if they are using different browser.
People should at least be informed that it matters.
I doubt most people are like Steve, running and trying different browsers and discovering on their own which works best.