+1, +1, +1.... You hit the nail on the head - the more people abandon *old* IE, the more Israeli web site will have to cater for them and in the process they'll become compatible with the rest of us.
I see it first hand every day - I live in a Window-less world - Desktop Linux at home and work, Android with Android/Chrome/Firefox on my mobile, and even my wife uses Firefox on her Windows. And I never, ever, have trouble accessing any web site, including (Australian) government web sites except when I happen to access Israeli sites. Even the open-source sites are backwords in their support for mobile (but at least they appear OK on my desktops). --Amos On May 24, 2012 6:02 PM, "Dotan Cohen" <dotanco <dotanco...@gmail.com> h...@gmail.com <dotanco...@gmail.com>> wrote: > 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 >
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