On 4/2/07, Brion Vibber <brion(a)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.
--
Peace & Love,
Erik
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