> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) > Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 11:34:29 +0200 > From: Mikel Forcada <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Reply-To: [email protected] > Subject: [Apertium-stuff] Strange suggestion > > > Hi Folks, > > I just opened the apertium.org site using chromium-browser and I just > got a suggestion: > > "This website would like to remind you: Your browser (Chrome 39) is out > of date. Update your browser for more security, comfort and the best > experience on this site." > > (....) > > Second, an official Apertium website should never, ever suggest the use > of proprietary software such as Chrome. This is absolutely contrary to > the rationale behind Apertium.
Agree. It seems to keep the name of the web brower. For me It says the same for Firefox. Is Chrome at least open source or not ? > > Third, what's wrong with using such an "old" browser? We should > support all browsers, with appropriate fallback to whatever works well > in older browsers. Not everyone in the world has an updated computer â» > many of them because they simply cannot update them because of old > hardware. Perfectly agree. When I changed the design of my first free software website using PHP and a little CSS, I saw scrolling was not working with an old version of Netscape. So, I put a link to access a frame version for very old browers. Even my newer website is compatible with Firefox 1.5 (there may be scrolling problems with Firefox 1.0 or older). There is an exception. In 2 pages, I put videos using the <video> tag of HTML5. So, to see the videos, you must have a brower of less than 2 years old (but it will be less than 7 years old in 2020). I really hate after one or two months after updating a flash version to find anoter website asking to update it again because the owner of the site chose to use the last version of this software to be as few as possible compatible with reader's browers. Been obliged to update his software is a typical attitude of enterprises selling owner softwares. I know there are secutity updates even for free softwares, but the user must have the right to choose when he will change something on his computer. In fact, when I prepared references hard disks for a group of computers, it would have been a problem if, due to automatic updates, hard disks content changes without the user knows that (and system stop to be the same on every computer). Few days ago, I saw apache stopped working on my current distribution. So, this afternoon, I just copied my system partitions from a backup of last week, and it works again without having lost anything. According to the answer of Francis, Well, if there are java scripts or something like that who need a web brother not too old, may be it can be announced, but rather speaking og the required technology than ordering to put a newer version of the web brower. > > Fourth, are we sure that all we have inside apertium.org is > free/open-source software? That's a very strange suggestion to make for > free/open-source software. > > Cheers > > Mikel > > -------------------------------- Bernard Chardonneau (France) Phone : [33] 9 72 36 32 90 GSM phone : [33] 6 49 95 13 95 Multilingual websites for my free softwares : http://libremail.free.fr and http://libremail.tuxfamily.org http://cyloop.tuxfamily.org (mainly translated with Apertium) My general website (in french only) http://bech.free.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
