On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 09:06:04AM +0200, Luca De Marini wrote: > 2009/6/23 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@profusion.mobi> > > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Toma<tomha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2009/6/23 Viktor Kojouharov <vkojouha...@gmail.com>: > > >> On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 09:23 -0600, Dan Kronstal wrote: > > >>> Hey folks. Not sure if anyone knows or cares, but in IE7 e.org has > > looked > > >>> like this: http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8599/e17inie.jpg since > > the new > > >>> design. > > >>> > > >>> Cheers > > >>> > > >>> Dan > > >> > > >> no one cares. e users will not be using IE anytime soon. and its just > > >> not worth the designer's time to fix these issues > > >> > > > > > > > > > I tried showing some buddies at work what E was and I was greeted by > > > the garbled page with IE7. Also, If I try to show any other mates that > > > have Windows what E is, again they very well could be using IE7. Like > > > it or not, its still the most used browser in the world. > > > > Another problem is when you try to have clients to use EFL, they ask > > what is it and you point to the website = FAILURE. Most managers, > > specially in embedded systems, use Windows in their day to day work > > and I don't know why they keep using IE7 instead of Firefox... but > > they do and since they often do the decisions they'll have bad > > impression, that you need to remove later. (ok, many wrong things on > > their part, but that's life...) > > > > Last but not least, I think that following standards is required. > > Coding to a specific browser, even if it's Firefox, is as bad as > > coding for IE. > > > > That's only obvious, people! You can't create a website for a large project, > no matter what the project is, and have it appear messed up in the most used > browser in the world! Saying things like: only Linux people or opensource > community people will want to see this site is only ridiculous. And this is > a dangerous thinking too. It means you only want the project to be liked by > very very few people no matter what. And you don't care about anyone else > who may, instead, like the project very much and even become a linux user, > an e17 user or even a developer. It's very simple to understand that the > site must be shown correctly on any major browser, but I'm sure it will soon > be fixed, of course, it would be a scandal if it wouldn't ;) > > Note that I don't use IE since when I switched to Linux and Mac, so, since > years. I didn't know absolutely of this issue before this post but that's > absolutely important. It's a priority I suggest. Because when people know > about E17 they first look the webpage of course (it happens for any project, > naturally) and when they visit our webpage, it's messed up. Well, the > obvious reasoning is that the project is messed up too. > > Toma brings us an absolutely obvious and significative example. > Greets everyone! > Bye bye, > > Luca D.M. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! > Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. > Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
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