On 4/2/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Seriously though, given the choice between a mild aesthetic change for saving web pages to disk in some browsers (who actually does this anyway?) and *completely destroying the ability to view the site* for people stuck on older machines...
I would say that saving pages, and saving them correctly, is pretty important. Who does it? People who live in areas of limited connectivity and do not have a printer -- download your articles in an Internet cafe and read them later. People who want to give a presentation in a room without net access and fit files on a USB stick. People who want to edit the files offline for re-use.
I agree, though, that we should not break Netscape 4 if we can avoid it. There are probably still plenty of NS4 users on Sun workstations and the like. For now, the best target for getting this fixed seems to be the Firefox bug that causes it. But if there is another syntax that could be used which avoids the saving problem, _and_ doesn't break NS4, that would be excellent.