I yesterday even convinced my brother (!) to try out Mozilla, and guess what, first response was "OMG! It's COOL!" and he's still searching for real disadvantages.
"JTK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Geoff wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > Thanks both to Jonas and to you Albert. As I said, I was looking for an > > explanation, not making a criticism, and that holds good. Even so, and > > speaking as someone who has invested much time and effort in ridding his > > business of M$ products, I am left wondering about the ability of the open > > source community to win this particular standards battle. > > Two things: > > 1. Regardless of what people are telling you, it's not a "standards > battle". Mozilla is so poorly written that it simply dies on most pages > regardless of their "standardness", and the further outside the lines > the page is, the wackier Mozilla gets. > 2. I want all nations of the world to speak English. But not just > English, the specific dialect of English that I do. That way I don't > have to go to the trouble of learning all those other languages, nor the > idioms of all the different English dialects. How much chance do you > think I have of getting that to happen? Right, about as much chance as > Mozilla has of getting a DTD on everybody's pages. Including their own > home page. > > > I send emails > > complaining to the webmasters of sites that require Ie, and if I > > understood the technicalities better, I would complain about any > > non-standards-compliant features I detected. I just don't get the > > impression that we are having any impact at all here, > > Mozilla is having exactly zero impact here. Why? Nobody uses it. > Nobody's posted numbers recently, I'd love to see how low the percentage > is these days. > > > and it is very > > depressing when one gives demonstrations of open source systems only to > > find that the browsers are (in my personal and maybe untypical > > Very typical. > > > experience), very likely to choke on many of the sites that I need to take > > people to. > > > > Regards, > > > > Geoff
