On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote: > Hi Dotan, > > On Tue, 22 May 2012 02:23:30 +0300 > Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> As probably most people on the list do, I try to get friends and >> family off Internet Explorer. Recently on Slashdot there was mention >> of a game that only works in Chrome: >> http://getcrackin.angrybirds.com/ >> >> Angry Birds is a popular game, and just sending this link to people >> gets most of them to install Chrome! So I encourage other list members >> to "suggest" this game to friends and family. Don't even mention >> Chrome, let them discover that detail on their own. > > I've spoken with someone from Mozilla-Israel (BCCed to this message) now and > he > told me that Angry Birds works fine in Mozilla Firefox too (though it may not > be > mentioned there and may require changing the User-Agent header). In general, I > think that restricting features to particular browsers, even if they are > open-source (which is the case for the Google Chromium project and not for > Google Chrome itself), hurts the open web and causes web fragmentation: > > http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/2010/08/31/ > > That put aside, I don't mind if sites will be displayed or behave in a > somewhat broken manner in old versions (or even new version) of Microsoft > Internet Explorer, as I explained here: > > http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ > > This is because Microsoft is not doing enough to conform to the web standards, > and there are open-source alternatives for MSIE everywhere it runs. > > I should also note that with all the noise surrounding Chrome's performance, > the > automated tests for the JS port of my ABC-Path solver and generator ran > significantly faster when I tested them on Firefox: > > https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/abc-path/overview > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish >
Thank you for the insight, Shlomi. I happen to agree with everything that you've mentioned! However, the goal of promoting this site is not to provide a web application for any use or entertainment. Rather, the goal is to give people a reason to install and use a browser other than Internet Explorer. This is especially critical here in Israel where as a Linux user with no access to IE I cannot use many government websites. We need to get a critical mass off of IE. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il