On 28/05/07, Tels nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com wrote:
On Monday 28 May 2007 05:10:42 David Gerard wrote:
On 28/05/07, Nick Jenkins nickpj@gmail.com wrote:
[on making a MediaWiki-specific browser]
available. In other words, it is an absolutely fantastic bonus when it happens, but the healthiest approach is probably that we need to collectively try to solve our problems for ourselves rather than expecting some external entity to help make it happen.
And people do it already, e.g. AWB. It's just annoying they do so only for Windows!
Exactly. Teach them to not write their software for some system so that the result is vendor-locked in into an OS, and a platform at the same time. Trying to fix their broken software development model by using wine is counterproductive.
I'm not a coder (or I'd be fixing it myself) so lecturing them on software development is unlikely to be listened to. I wonder why that is.
ps: setting the default reply on your email to "nospam-abuse" is one level of obnoxious below setting it to one that does whitelisting.
- d.