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.

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