On Friday 29 February 2008 15:37:28 Chris Croughton wrote: > If you want ordinary people to look at what you produce, do it in the > format they are most likely to be able to use. Doing it in some weird > new format they've never heard of with the material you want htem to see > being in a 'legacy' area will only annoy them.
Hmm.. I would say fix the root bug, rather than breaking known-good things as a workaround for the bug. For example, websites should never have been adapted to work with non-compliant browsers like IE. That works around a bug, instead of fixing the buggy browser. As a result, we all have to live with horrible legacy web compatibility issues. In this case, I think the right thing to do is put content on sites in open formats. If they are difficult to play, then explanations should be provided in the short-term, and plugins should be provided in the long-term. -- Lee _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
