this started as a deffense of multi platform as an excuse for not supporting other browsers.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Schmude" <[email protected]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 2:18 PM Subject: Re: Opera (was Re: firefox, mozilla and voiceover:) True, but it is not accessible on any platform but Mac at present, and even the Mac accessibility has a major issue. It has no accessibility support on Windows, and is based on QT so is not accessible on any of the various UNIX platforms running X. Not exactly a prime choice for reaching the most amount of users with webvisum. On Dec 28, 2008, at 14:08, David Poehlman wrote: > opera and ie also run on multiple platforms. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Smart" <[email protected]> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS > X by > theblind" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 2:01 PM > Subject: Re: Opera (was Re: firefox, mozilla and voiceover:) > > > At 12:06 PM 12/28/2008, you wrote: >> well that's disgusting to b honest > > No it isn't. Are they even charging for Webvisum? Nope. I don't see > you offering to rewrite it for other brousers. > Firefox is open source and runs on many different platforms. I'd > say that's pretty good. It's one choice out of many. > > > > > The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. --Douglas Adams
