On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 19:57:26 +0000, S�ren Kuklau wrote: <snip>
> And I appreciate that people like you have another point of view. It's a > tough matter, and I think a similar thing was in mid-98, when Apple > introduced the "iMac". It had no floppy drive, no SCSI, no ADB, and so > on - before that, every Mac had it, and literally nobody wanted one to > be without it. With this radical movement, Apple could move quite a lot > of people - fortunately involving many hardware manufacturers too - to > USB, which was introduced by iMac as a replacement for ADB and low-speed > SCSI devices. They could have as well brought iMac _with_ these "legacy" > interfaces, and provided a note in the manual "Usage of floppy drives is > no longer recommended." - but people would have laughed at that and said > "oh well, but what if I still use it, hmm?". > > Now, the "legacy interfaces" are things like Netscape 4's <layer> tag, > and the new replacement would be the standards compliant <div>. Mozilla > does the radical way just like Apple did back then, and so far isn't > really that successful. It'll take quite a lot of time. mozilla.org has > a "Tech Evangelism" team which talks with owners of huge sites like > those you've mentioned, and tries to convince them to make their sites > more standards compliant - and thus more compatible to Gecko-based > browsers like Mozilla, Netscape 6, K-Meleon, and so on. Well, that seems an excellent analogy Soren, and I have learned much from this thread. I can only wish the Tech Evangelists good fortune. I am on their side. Even so, I am lucky enough to be able to pay for my software if I need to - I support open source because it is better not because it is cheaper - and I would willingly pay top dollar for a linux Moz-like browser that could render anything the web could throw at it. Regards, Geoff
