On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 01:35:06PM +0100, Rowan Collins wrote:
Thinking about the "Standard" skin naming issue brought to mind my least favourite piece of text in the whole MediaWiki interface:
"Recommended for modern browsers".
It's not a note attached to an option somewhere, it is the entire text of one of the options for "Rendering math" (maybe one day I'll be able to customize that to "maths"...).
What exactly is a "modern browser"? How "modern" is "modern"? Does that include modern text-based browsers, such as ELinks? I doubt it! What happens in a few years time, when "modern" browsers become able to do far fancier tricks (and what's now "modern" will be "older")? And who is recommending this, and why? And if you're about to answer that question, hold on to it for a bit; if we have to give an explanation beyond the text that appears, we might as well just call it "use this one".
It's explained in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texvc
Please read it first.