Posted by andrew on 11/28/07 10:57

On 2007-11-28, Mika <anon@anon.com> wrote:

[...]

> We know, we could rewrite the entire site from scratch, however when you
> balance the cost and time of that with supporting a browser which 1% of the
> people *arriving* at our site have, and they all have IE installed anyway if
> they wish to use it after consulting our FAQ, then that is the choice we
> made. We understand the objections to it, however it was a carefully
> considered decision and that is the one we as the designers of our site have
> the right to make.

Hmmm.... I appreciate that in the beginning of this thread you were
asking about Firefox, but if you go down the road of aiming at IE you
will be deliberately excluding those of us who run Linux. IE runs on
Linux but it is a bit of a pain to get running and most don't.

Andrew

--
Now I can praise him, now that I can stand by to mourn
and speak before this web that killed my father; yet
I grieve for the thing done, the death, and all our race.
I have won; but my victory is soiled, and has no pride.

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