Eli Billauer wrote on 2003-06-24:

> Gilboa Davara wrote:
>
> >B. Non standard shared Web-sites:
> >At least half of the sites in Israel don't work right under Mozilla.
> >(ynet, walla, etc) Why? cause they are using non-standard IE-only
> >extensions. Christ, even the Linux forum in ynet cannot be read using
> >Mozilla... I talked to the forum admin and nada... zilch.
> >
> You have a point there. This could be solved with Internet Explorer
> under wine, though, as Shachar demonstrated partially at Haifux
> yesterday. Yes, I would be happier too if it was all Mozilla, but if the
> Explorer was available for Linux (ran as nobody, jailed with chroot ;),
> would we care so much?
>
Yes, very much and not only because that would still be inconvenient.
It would only entrench the tradition of writing bad sites.  Do you
want Haaretz to stay with visual-order hebrew?  Do you want all this
to break when Microsoft changes some bug in IE?  Do you want people
with disabilities to keep suffering?  If the developers argument has
any point, it's with this specific sub-community: web developres.

-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

"Reading the documentation I felt like a kid in a toy shop."
 -- Phil Thompson on Python's standard library

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