Selon Gerard Meijssen gerardm@myrealbox.com:
Anthere wrote:
Gerard Meijssen a écrit:
Emmanuel Engelhart wrote:
Hi
Some browsers are not UNICODE compliant. The consequence is that some users are breaking pages... and don't understant how/why. I propose to implement a test on each update of article, and put a warning if the user's browser belongs to a regexp (browser black list) specified in the config file.
reactions ?
Best regards
Emmanuel Engelhart
As they have a negative effect on mediawiki content, why not banning them from changing stuff ? The reason is obvious NPOV and there are good quality alternatives like Firefox.
Thanks, GerardM
Banning someone just because he has an old browser/computer is not a good idea...
Which NPOV are you talking about ?
anthere
Banning someone because he has an old computer is not in question. Banning someone because he has an old browser is in itself also not a problem. The neutral point is when a particular brand / version breaks the Mediawiki content AND when we have no way of preventing damage. When we inform that we DO want their edits but that a different browser like Firefox, prevents the user to damage our data, it will be reasonable and measured to request the user to install a browser that we help him choose.
Most defininitly we are NOT banning persons here, we are banning tools that damage our data.
I agree with Ant. We have to encourage people to participate.
I propose : - put a warning for the edit box - a confirm dialog box - a appended string on the update notice, so someone on the 'last changes' page can be warned.
Emmanuel