He's got a point there. The target audience is mostly the Linux user - which won't be using Internet Explorer anyways!
2005/7/6, Marcelo Duarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Wine uses an Mozilla ActiveX in shdocvw, and Jacek is using Gecko in > another part, forcing the user to have Firefox, no? > In another side, the user of Wine, is using Linux and Firefox or another > Open Source Browser, not IE. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > > > Yes but anyone looking a wine knows about Linux and knows about the > > ammount crap to expect for IE be it on wine or windows > > > > I find it hard to imagine that anyone coming to wine needs to be made > > aware of FF or any other non-IE browser. > > > > The Open-standards link suggested would be a good idea for a link page > > but I agree with Marcus that it is not needed on the front page. > > > > Why not some worthy appeal buttons as well , Tsunami victims are less > > important than FireFox? > > > > m2c ;) > > > > On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:27:12 +0200, Andreas Mohr > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:46:06PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> > >>> By the way, did you guys know that Mozilla.org links to CX on the > >>> plugins page? > >>> > >>> http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html > >>> > >>> Check the bottom of the page. > >>> > >>> They even bring Wine into it, and compliment Codeweavers for their > >>> support of the Wine project. > >>> > >>> Damn decent of them, really. > >>> > >>> But, whatever. > >>> > >>> Holly > >> > >> Do I sense some slight disagreement in this mail? ;-) > >> > >> Well, I for one am slightly astonished about that FireFox button > >> reaction. > >> > >> The whole world is talking about the lack of interoperability or > >> community > >> efforts within the OSS community, and here we are blindly rejecting > >> any attempt to go into such a direction. > >> > >> So, while it can very easily be considered not very "PC" to place a > >> specific > >> Mozilla button on the main page, a non-specific "you may get a > >> standards-compliant browser here" button surely cannot hurt? > >> (provided a decent web site exists for such an effort, and provided we > >> really want to do that) > >> > >> I mean, *did* we have a huge amount of pain from all the non-standard > >> web pages caused by the "less than perfectly" interoperable > >> Intrusion Engine, > >> or didn't we? > >> And *did* we have huge pains from the continually reoccurring security > >> issues of IE or didn't we? > >> > >> Next time you tell us we should remove the donation button from the > >> web page since it distracts users... > >> > >> Andreas Mohr > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > -- Sijmen Mulder -- Sijmen Mulder
