rms wrote with this idea, and said it was ok to pass along. I am
arguing with him that spamming webmasters about IE-only features
actually *could* make things worse -- it could annoy them into moving
from a position of ignorance (I didn't know I was using something that
isn't standard -- I'll fix it, thanks) to intention (screw you for
spamming me, I'm never gonna change -- IE forever!). Thoughts?
/be
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I am told there are many sites that only work with IE. I am trying to
think of ways to do more to discourage that, and it occurs to me that
Mozilla could help organize the effort in a very efficient way.
What would you think of adding an automatic feature to send a
complaint message when certain features are encountered?
Personalizing the messages would make the campaign more effective. My
idea is that the message template would be stored in a file in the
user's home dir so that the user could change it at any time. The
first time a user sends such a message, the user would be invited to
personalize the template right then and there.
If there are several features that cause such trouble, you could
arrange to insert specific brief explanations of the troublesome
features found in that page. The template could include a magic
cookie such as $$ that means "insert the explanations here".
There may not be an automatic way to determine where to write to, but
perhaps you could figure it out using heuristics based on searching
the site for Mailto links plus info from DNS. You might also be able
to maintain a database of addresses to write to for various sites.
What do you think? I think that over a period of a couple of years
this might generate substantial pressure on sites to stay away from
nonstandard features.
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