On Monday, May 16, 2011 01:20:24 PM Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> On Monday 16 May 2011 09:51:14 Roger Luedecke wrote:
> > On Sunday, May 15, 2011 10:49:11 PM Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > > On Sunday, May 15, 2011 07:12:10 PM Roger Luedecke wrote:
> > > > One thing that keeps people from adopting Linux is the problem of
> > > > websites being designed using MS only technologies, or that block non
> > > > MS browsers or OSes. Would it be feasible for us to set up a list of
> > > > commonly used / important websites that do this, and lobby those
> > > > sites to adopt modern stadards, and to blitz whatever reviews
> > > > possible to indicate their failure and lower their ranking, thus
> > > > pressutring them to adopt standards?
> > >
> > > A lot is possible - but let's focus on what is at the heart of the
> > > openSUSE project and I suggest to find another project that will do
> > > that kind of lobbying and help them,
> > >
> > > andreas
> >
> > Well, I don't see why we couldn't get the initiative rolling. Not that
> > such a thing is for the ambassadors to dedicate their time to, but I
> > think it could be a aa good program. And every idea has to start
> > somewhere.
>
> If you want to do it - that is fine. And yes, some openSUSE people might
> join you in it - as a Free Software community, we care about such things.
> But it is, as AJ said, not a core thing for us...
>
> I don't really think "openSUSE" should be emailing websites to complain
> about their lack of standards-compliance. It doesn't make much sense for
> us. A project like the Free Software Foundation is about that stuff - not
> us.
The people interested are the companies and projects Opera, Apple (Safari),
Google (Chrome/Chromium) and Mozilla (Firefox). So, those are on my mind...
Andreas
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