[Wsuug] Good news!

[Lucien Frelin]

I'll try and suggest it to my team. I work at Network Solutions and we have
a pretty good traffic rate to put a message up like that. It would reach a
lot of people involved with browsers in a good way I think. I'm on the team
that makes those decisions too .. so hopefully it'll be heard.

Lucien

On Feb 19, 2008 10:51 AM, Joshua McDonald <josh at thisisgrow.com> wrote:

> They will never get it right.  Not with windows, not with IE.
>
> When someone asks my why I'm a linux guy (at home, win at work still),
> this is why.  Mac is just as bad, just not on the web end...both companies
> love their own proprietariness (I don't think that's a word, but I'm using
> it anyways :) )
>
> What needs to happen, is developers "join up" and stand up for our
> standards.
>
> Big sites (eBay, MySpace, FaceBook, and major retail sites....etc) should
> team up and show a simple message.
>
> "You are viewing this site in a non standards-compliant browser.  Please
> install a standards compliant browser to continue" and link to FF, Safari,
> Opera (ugh...), etc...
>
> If just a handfull of the biggest sites do it, MS's hand will be
> forced...and they might actually get it right.
>
>
>
> On Feb 19, 2008 10:43 AM, Andrew Jaswa <ajaswa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > *sigh*
> >
> > ...
> >
> > when will Microsoft learn?
> >
> > On Feb 19, 2008 9:13 AM, Jason Wilson <jason at jasonwilsondesign.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Not really but I doubt you'd read past the subject if I said "Oh god
> > > what is Microsoft doing now". Well Microsoft is setting Internet
> > > Explorer for more deserved failure. Read more at A List Apart. http://
> > > www.alistapart.com/articles/theyshootbrowsers
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