Posted by Jochem Maas on 10/18/05 16:30

Richard Lynch wrote:
> On Mon, October 17, 2005 3:56 pm, Torgny Bjers wrote:
>
>>Also, when using <iframe/> you are weeding out those old browsers that
>
>
> If somebody else wants to weed out old browsers, that's all fine and
> good, but that's not me...
>
>
>>Besides, if this is for an editor interface, for a specific client,
>>one
>>could reasonably demand that they use at least one of the newer
>>browsers
>>such as IE5+ or Mozilla. If not for a specific client, or subset of
>>clients, but for a general update of an entire application that is
>>open
>>sourced, I agree with Jasper, don't touch it. :)
>
>
> I personally don't think I should demand editors use a specific browser.
>
> I believe in customer choice.

NOAM CHOMPSKY --> Manufactured Consent

just a loose cannon :-)

>
> For that matter, *I* probably don't use a browser that does this
> right, being as I'm usually on Linux, almost always on Netscape, and
> very very very rarely do PDF and/or Flash work really right for me.
>
> And you know what?
>
> I very very very seldom care badly enough about any of the content I'm
> "missing" and when I do care enough to go get it, I'm disappointed by
> the content more often than I'm pleased that I took that effort.

I feel that - most of the all-signing all-dancing 'content' out there
is less substantial as styrofoam and less interesting.

and the next site that displays a PDF when I wasn't expecting it
and I have to spend the next five minutes waiting for the b'std to load
(with the alternative being to KILL the browser - losing all open pages
in the process) ... might just make me snap ;-)

>
> Again, this is obviously MY weird world-view at work here. :-)
>

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