On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
Wikimedia's goal is not to better humanity in some unspecified way. It's to disseminate free knowledge. Pestering users who probably can't fix the problem does nothing to advance that goal. If we're going to try moralizing our users, why don't we go ahead and nag our users to ditch IE entirely and switch to Firefox? IE7 is pretty bug-ridden too. Or hey, why not try getting them all to switch to Linux?
Exactly. Also, in many ways upgrading to IE7 doesn't solve many problems at all (except for some very obvious CSS bugs) because it's still riddled with bugs and wrong implementations of W3C specs, especially on the Javascript implementation. We just have to live with the fact that web development means spending 30% of your time on writing hacks for IE6 and IE7 (and probably for IE8 too).
-- Hay