Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-28 Thread Shahar Dag
- Original Message - From: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com To: Shahar Dag d...@cs.technion.ac.il Cc: Haifux haifux@haifux.org Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop I disagree with the suggestion to hide the browser we use

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-26 Thread Amos Shapira
I'd appreciate to see a summary of the meeting and if there are any follow-up actions here or maybe one of the foss web sites. (I might have joined you on-line but it'll happen in my middle of the night of a work day). Cheers, Amos On 4/25/10, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: I wish that

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
If you would like to have other means of communicating the current target, please let me know by private email. Orr, we should _not_ all write to the websites at once! It will be obvious that a small group of zealots is targeting them. Rather, it should appear to the sites that there are

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-26 Thread Orr Dunkelman
Dotan hi, Even though we haven't tried as a community to approach such webmasters on a regular basis, history shows that people approached webmasters as individuals, and usually it did not succeed. Maybe trying as a group would have a better effect. Now, approaching several websites at the same

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
Even though we haven't tried as a community to approach such webmasters on a regular basis, history shows that people approached webmasters as individuals, and usually it did not succeed. Maybe trying as a group would have a better effect. I disagree. I have contacted tens of sites, and in

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-26 Thread cool-RR
I haven't been following this thread at all, but if you're criticizing Israeli sites, please include Pelephone's. One of their crimes: In their login page, if you press Enter instead of clicking the button, it won't work, and return you to the login screen without showing an error message. (So you

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-26 Thread Orr Dunkelman
As Dotan pointed out in the meeting, the problems are going to slowly disappear, as both IE 9.0 is more standard-friendly and as more and more people browse using their mobile devices. At the same time, the more people complain, the faster the support would come. So if a tech junkie would

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
I wish that I had seen this message sooner. I have been contacting sites about this issue for years. I hope to be there at 18:30, there is a lot that we as a group can do together to convince these sites to change. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com