Hi,
i've placed a small disclaimer on my site stateing why im "NON-IE"
Web Standards Friendly site. would be better
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:01:34 +1000, Chris Stratford
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> When I make my site, I just make sure it works everywhere.
> Then use some FireFox/Mozilla Border
When I make my site, I just make sure it works everywhere.
Then use some FireFox/Mozilla Border Radius code...
Just to make IE users a little jealous.
And hopefully turn a few over to FF
eg:
www.gamerdb.net
My most recent project.
Not entirly complete...
Actually only about 50% done.
But 90% of the
Mark,
I have a similar outlook with my own personal blog, but if you are able to
look at your visitors stats like myself then you may find that over half
your readership is using IE. I'd personally try to make your site
accessible to everyone you can, even if it means making a little extra
eff
Chris Blown wrote:
Did I mention I hate analogies. ;)
as in your expansion of the analogy you're blaming *users* of IE, rather
than the developers that purely cater for IE and/or the programmers at
MS who made the leaky car, i'd say it's not too accurate anyway ;)
Patrick H. Lauke
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On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 22:14, Dean Jackson wrote:
> ..
> Would you intentionally build a car park that stopped Toyotas from
> entering?
>
If there was a lot of Toyotas parking in my building and being that they
all leaked oil in my car park and often their drivers scratched other
peoples cars beca
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:35 , Christie Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
>"Why is this site best viewed with FireFox? Try it and experience the
>difference."
I do like this approach, and even tho i do link to Browserhappy.com and
spreadfirefox i
think the NON-IE bit should be reworked to promote th
Instead of going negative, how about going positive? Most people don't know
that they have a choice of browsers and they're scared that if they install
a different one, that the computer will "break".
To "help" people understand that the browser world is wider than IE, I put
this linked notice on
Mark
There are quite a few articles now in the mainstream media that expose
the Skoda like qualities of IE, maybe you should link to these? Sydney
Morning Herald ICON section quite regularly rates Opera and Moz as the
best available. PC User Australia had a big article "Why you shouldn't
use IE
One of the pillars of Web Standards is that "content" should be "Best Viewed With Any
Browser". This principle is fundamental to Web Standards.
We actually adhere to this principle when we use the CSS "import" directive to hide
CSS from Netscape 4 so that it's poor support for CSS is not going t
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:58 , john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
>Doesn't ditching IE run contrary to the whole idea of accessibility and
>using Web standards?
It does, but im not really ditching IE im more just refusing to add the fix's for
th PNG-LOGO
and sorting the margin/padding issuse with the
On 18 Oct 2004, at 21:10, Mark Harwood wrote:
Not commercialy, but personaly on your own blog sites are other little
community
sites?
I've just redesigned my blog (www.phunky.co.uk) and in doing so i
decided i was
not going
to touch some of the minor issuse that IE has with my site, although
it
well, IE is the bane of my life, and i wish everybody would just see
the light and switch to Firefox :)
but, when it comes down to it, the Web is about communication.
commercial or personal, if your site falls apart for of your audience, you're not communicating very well.
and the ability to cr
Doesn't ditching IE run contrary to the whole idea of accessibility and
using Web standards? The point isn't to get people to switch from IE,
but rather, to design in a way that will reach the broadest audience for
years to come.
~john
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Dr. Zeus Web Development
http://
I did say not commercialy, but on my personal site...
Altho my worries is that it could effect my commercial work :S
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:29 , Mike Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
>>I just wanna know your view on ditching IE on purpose?
>
>Commercial suicide :o)
>
>Mike Pepper
>Accessible Web
I think it is a very dangerous decision to make! IE is still by far the most
common browser and you might be right that clients could get a bit nervous
when they see you are anti-IE. It took me such a long time to ditch NN 4,
but now that I have done it it just feels great! Dropping IE will take a
>I just wanna know your view on ditching IE on purpose?
Commercial suicide :o)
Mike Pepper
Accessible Web Developer ()
www.seowebsitepromotion.com
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