Everyone, What does everyone think of our new website redirecting all IE users to a firefox download? I'm asking about this because of the recent IE security problems. Homelandd Security and CERT are recommending alternate browsers for current IE users. It would be a drastic step, but we are a security conscious community.
An example of the elseif redirect is in phpwebsite-comm cvs. http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpwebsite-comm/themes/debug/
New Website Status Update: I hope to have a new preview ready early next week. I apologize for the delay.
As a general matter, there is some attractiveness to your idea. Even though we are a Linux project, the reality is that a lot of our users come from a Windows background (for that matter, I use a Win2K workstation myself, and I've run Linux systems since 1992). And vulnerable Windows systems on the Internet hurt all of us, not just their own users.
We should make sure that if we instruct (advise? compel? see below) people to use a non-IE browser, LEAF's own Website, and major links like the one to Charles' site, works properly with it. Aside from some minor cosmetic issues, the main thing here is to make sure we consistently use file extensions for binaries that the Web server identifies as a mime-type that will bring up the SAVE dialog, NOT one that will treat is a text download and thus turn it into jabberwocky.
(This problem, still annoyingly pervasive, is the main reason I even keep a copy of IE on my Win2K system; for better or worse, IE is the only Windows browser I know of that will spot server lies about the mime-type of binaries.)
As far as I can tell, our current setup is OK in this respect. But I doubt I was able to hit everything in a quick check, so others should supplement my checking, and/or we should be ready to correct promptly any problems that new users encounter.
The bottom line question, though, is whether this is a good idea or not. I think that depends on the implementation. I would encourage you to consider a method that ADVISES IE users of the problem, but not one that compels them to change browsers in order to get LEAF. Me, I like advice, but I hate orders ... "obey" is a 4-letter word ... and I suspect a lot of our user base is the same way.
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