[Wikipedia-l] the tool bar : disable it in some browsers (or fix

[Daniel Mayer]

it), please
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:31:25 -0800
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Anthere wrote:
>I suggest that a browser check be added, and that on all browsers where it is
>not working, it be disabled. It is *very bad* to let such bugs in an
>application, with the claim it is to help people when it will just do the
>opposite.  Please, keep it for other browsers (because it is a *neat*
>feature, but disable it in our browser). Respect variety. Please do not
>punish minorities browsers users by degrading the way the application works
>for them.  And please no one answer that this browser is old, and should not
>exist at all. That might have been true on my old (favorite) Opera 5, but
>Netscape 7 is recent. 

Exactly! I wrote essentially the same thing on the English Village pump 
several hours ago. 

>There is really no big deal in wiki editing. 

Yep. The whole point of wiki is to make mark-up fast and easy. Having a  
half-broken edit tool bar just causes confusion, however. Best then to leave 
it out entirely for any browser that can't take full advantage of it. 

-- mav