On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Michael Dale<[email protected]> wrote: > We need to inform people that the quality of experience can be > substantially improved if they use a browser that supports free formats. > Wikimedia only distributes content in free formats because if you have > to pay for a licensee to view, edit or publish ~free content~ then the > content is not really ~free~. > > We have requested that Apple and IE support free formats but they have > chosen not to. Therefore we are in a position where we have to recommend > a browser that does have a high quality user experience in supporting > the formats. We are still making every effort to display the formats in > IE & Safari using java or plugins but we should inform people they can > have an improved experience on par with proprietary solutions if they > are using different browser.
People should at least be informed that it matters. I doubt most people are like Steve, running and trying different browsers and discovering on their own which works best. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
