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.
--michael
Steve Bennett wrote:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Marco Schustermarco@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote:
We should not recommend Chrome - as good as it is, but it has serious privacy problems.
Out of curiosity, why do we need to "recommend" a browser at all, and why do we think anyone will listen to our "recommendation"? People use the browser they use. If the site they want to go to doesn't work in their browser, they'll either not go there, or possibly try another one. They're certainly not going to change browsers just because the site told them to.
Personally, I use Chrome, FF and IE. And the main reason for switching is just to have different sets of cookies. Occasionally a site doesn't like Chrome, so I switch. But it's not like I'm going to take a "your experience would be better in <browser>" statement seriously.
Steve
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