Re: CLOSED Re: [WSG] Firefox Promotion

2004-10-23 Thread Sean Naden
for anything good to spread in a network it takes lots of small voices, not one big one. Nice one Trovester, (though don't forget to sniff for other (not windows) OS's) Sean On 23/10/2004, at 3:53 PM, James Ellis wrote: Offlist please, this has nothing do with the implementation of web

RE: [WSG] Firefox Promotion

2004-10-22 Thread Patrick Lauke
From: Trovster I have started a little site for the promotion of Firefox http://firefox.trovster.com Not to sound like a party pooper, but...why not spend energy contributing to the official http://www.spreadfirefox.com, rather than fragmenting the landscape with a separate new site? I'm all

Re: [WSG] Firefox Promotion

2004-10-22 Thread john
I'm actually wondering if there's a site that promotes all browsers that support Web standards. I use Firefox, and will recommend it to anybody who asks, but when I talk about Web standards, I don't like sounding like I'm tooting Firefox's horn, ya know? So is there a generic site with some

Re: [WSG] Firefox Promotion

2004-10-22 Thread Trovster
There's browse happy campaign - http://browsehappy.com/ which talks about experiences from changing from IE to Opera/Mozilla/Firefox and Safari Trev ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Firefox Promotion

2004-10-22 Thread Jonothan Stribling
Whilst Firefox may be a bloody good browser, shouldn't the WSG list be more about lobbying for a range of browsers that are Web Standards friendly. IE may cause most web developers committed to standards to pull their hair out but the fact is it is still used by the majority of interner users and

Re: [WSG] Firefox Promotion

2004-10-22 Thread Lea de Groot
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:39:26 +1000, Jonothan Stribling wrote: I find the whole smash IE and support firefox thing a total waste of energy. What does this really do for web standards? Well, yes! But its the Firefox people who are promoting Firefox specifically, and this doesn't seem

Re: [WSG] Firefox Promotion

2004-10-22 Thread Sean Naden
for anything good to spread in a network it takes lots of small voices, not one big one. Nice one Trovester, (though don't forget to sniff for other (not windows) OS's) Sean On 23/10/2004, at 3:34 AM, Patrick Lauke wrote: From: Trovster I have started a little site for the promotion of Firefox

Re: [WSG] Firefox Promotion

2004-10-22 Thread Glenn
Lobbying who? MS has shown itself to be singularly un-interested in standards, esp with the whole Avalon thing with Longhorn. Moz co have produced a browser (or a few actually) which mostly supports web standards and have made a commitment to improving their support of those standards. I

Re: [WSG] Firefox Promotion

2004-10-22 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 10/22/04 7:20 AM Trovster [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: If anyone can help, you can either email me personally or keep it on the list. I'd keep it off list. This list is getting too much questionable content these days. Rick Faaberg **

CLOSED Re: [WSG] Firefox Promotion

2004-10-22 Thread James Ellis
Offlist please, this has nothing do with the implementation of web standards. Mozilla vs * discussions are best left for places like mozillazine.org. Don't request to keep things like this on the list or your account will be unsubscribed - that's not a threat, we are just trying to keep this