RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-23 Thread Uri Bruck
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Eddie Aronovich wrote: During RMS talk the feeling of love and help to your community was one of the main issues. Abir is right - stop to hate and start to love. Is that anything like Make love - not war? -- Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-22 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
On Tuesday, Jan 21, 2003, at 14:13 Asia/Jerusalem, Gabor Szabo wrote: Thinking it about a bit more I disagree with the term 'blacklisting'. I'd prefer the bug reporting notion. Well, then the Middle-East tech evangelism component in bugzilla is your friend. Short URL: http://snurl.com/mpw (or

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-22 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
On Tuesday, Jan 21, 2003, at 15:17 Asia/Jerusalem, Boulgakov Andrei wrote: Where can I read about those standards? All your questions answered: http://www.webstandards.org/learn/ AFAIK, NS4 and NS6 has different DOM (I do not mention about DOM of other browsers;-), what standards say about

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-22 Thread Ely Levy
Jerusalem Israel On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Yotam Medini wrote: Let's establish a 'black list' of Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers. A specific category (dark-black) could be for sites whose main category is about computers. Let me suggest a candidate: www.ksp.co.il -- yotam

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-22 Thread Ely Levy
. :) Adir. On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Yotam Medini wrote: Let's establish a 'black list' of Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers. A specific category (dark-black) could be for sites whose main category is about computers. Let me suggest a candidate: www.ksp.co.il -- yotam

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-22 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Shoshannah Forbes, from the post of Wed, 22 Jan: I'm adore lynx. Am I fit into standards? If the site is built well, it should degrade gracefully. Lynx is not 100% standard compliant, but standard sites work better with it then non- standard ones. I'm not sure how much better

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Shoshannah Forbes, from the post of Wed, 22 Jan: I'm adore lynx. Am I fit into standards? If the site is built well, it should degrade gracefully. Lynx is not 100% standard compliant, but standard sites work better with it then non-

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-22 Thread Ely Levy
CSS is a standart HTML is a standart as well as XML see www.w3c.org Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Boulgakov Andrei wrote: Later - rewrite the site based on standards. Where can I read about those standards? AFAIK, NS4 and NS6 has

Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Yotam Medini
Let's establish a 'black list' of Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers. A specific category (dark-black) could be for sites whose main category is about computers. Let me suggest a candidate: www.ksp.co.il -- yotam

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
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Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Amir Tal
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 11:14, Yotam Medini wrote: 1) sending once is enough. 2) who are you ? 3) if you want that kind of list, create it first ! then ask for help maintaining \ hosting it. tal. Let's establish a 'black list' of Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers. A specific

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Orr Dunkelman wrote: I think this should be done very carefully. I agree with the notes of Orr and would like to add a few more. For each reported site there should be a short explanation in what way is it broken and possibly a contact name who reported the problem. As

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Yotam Medini wrote: Let's establish a 'black list' of Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers. A specific category (dark-black) could be for sites whose main category is about computers. Let me suggest a candidate: www.ksp.co.il Have a look at http

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Alon Altman
Maybe create a whitelist instead? In each category (news, finance, bank, etc.) label the best site(s) in the category and the shortcomings (if any) with them. That way, people might start making decisions based on the list and site owners might start getting concerned. This can be done in

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Alon Altman wrote: Maybe create a whitelist instead? In each category (news, finance, bank, etc.) label the best site(s) in the category and the shortcomings (if any) with them. That way, people might start making decisions based on the list and site owners might

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Alon Altman
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Yotam Medini wrote: Let's establish a 'black list' of Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers. A specific category (dark-black) could be for sites whose main category is about computers. Let me suggest a candidate: www.ksp.co.il Seems to work in Mozila 1.3a

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Adir Abraham
anything and nobody has to satisfy your OS you're working on (take this in a good spirit :). Love the problem.. don't hate it. Just something to think about. :) Adir. On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Yotam Medini wrote: Let's establish a 'black list' of Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Boulgakov Andrei
Title: RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers Yap, and let's establish black list of : - applications, that can not be run in text mode. - OSs that can not be booted from only diskette - users, that doesn't know to work with keyboard - something else? Somebody run 2.4 with Gnome

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Alon Altman
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Boulgakov Andrei wrote: Later - rewrite the site based on standards. Where can I read about those standards? http://www.w3.org/ AFAIK, NS4 and NS6 has different DOM (I do not mention about DOM of other browsers;-), what standards say about it? NS4 is one of least

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Alon Weinstein
Where can I read about those standards? the Web Standards Project could be a good place -- http://www.webstandards.org/ AFAIK, NS4 and NS6 has different DOM (I do not mention about DOM of other browsers;-), what standards say about it? IMO if you're developing a new site you should

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Boulgakov Andrei
Title: RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers Very interesting. Did you try to enter to w3c with IE, M1.x and NS4x? Tell me about ONE customer, that publish else than My home page, that will pay for such inconsistency of UI. -Original Message- From: Alon Altman [mailto

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Boulgakov Andrei
Title: RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers I'm agree with you. all my question were to bring an opinion as yours ( and as mine); most of complains are: Site doesn't support Linux (it is not correct, anyway. Site can not support browser) are the complains of NS4 users. I never seen

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Alon Weinstein
Very interesting. Did you try to enter to w3c with IE, M1.x and NS4x? Tell me about ONE customer, that publish else than My home page, that will pay for such inconsistency of UI. Again -- NS4 is not standards compliant. I went to w3c's site with IE5.0, Netscape 7 Netscape 4.7. It looks the same

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Alon Weinstein
I'm agree with you. all my question were to bring an opinion as yours ( and as mine); most of complains are: Site doesn't support Linux (it is not correct, anyway. Site can not support browser) are the complains of NS4 users. I never seen sites using VbScript client-side, bandwith of today

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Alon Altman
If a site cannot be reached from non-IE browser it's poorly-built. A standarts-compliant site should work with any browser. It should even need to check for the browser's maker. You mean that a standards-compliant site should NOT check the browser maker. According to standards, the only

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Alon Weinstein
It should even need to check for the browser's maker. You mean that a standards-compliant site should NOT check the browser maker. Oops, the 'nt slipped away from the should :-) ofcourse that's what I was trying to say. Checking for browser maker is problematic -- you can never be

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Eddie Aronovich
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers And how will that help us to achieve anything, if at all? Black listing a site will most likely publish it (wait until your list is found in some newspaper..), and will not help with reducing the problem. The opposite

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Alon Altman wrote: If a site cannot be reached from non-IE browser it's poorly-built. A standarts-compliant site should work with any browser. It should even need to check for the browser's maker. You mean that a standards-compliant site should NOT check the browser

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Alon Altman wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Gabor Szabo wrote: ps. I have started to overtake a project which is nearly finished. It is using a lot of javascript and - though I have not tested it yet - I am nearly sure it won't work in a lot of browsers except IE 6.0

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Oron Peled
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:03:39 +0200 (IST) Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This can be done in addition to the blacklisting of extremely bad sites (like those who block non-IE browsers or crash Mozilla). Sorry, if Mozilla *crashes* it's definitely a Mozilla bug. So these specific sites

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Alon Altman wrote: If a site cannot be reached from non-IE browser it's poorly-built. A standarts-compliant site should work with any browser. It should even need to check for the browser's maker. You mean that a standards-compliant site

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Adir Abraham
PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers And how will that help us to achieve anything, if at all? Black listing a site will most likely publish it (wait until your list is found in some newspaper..), and will not help

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Oron Peled
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:36:41 +0200 (IST) Adir Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Black listing a site will most likely publish it (wait until your list is found in some newspaper..), and will not help with reducing the problem. Someone already suggested a fix for this problem -- A list

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Oron Peled
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:32:13 +0200 (IST) Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Standard-compliant site builders may have been able to fully use such an approach has there been fully-standard-compliant browsers. But the current browsers still have many little bugs that have to be worked