On 14 May 2013 11:43, Robert Scott <li...@humanleg.org.uk> wrote: > > We would be alpha all the way into 2016 then. > > Really, we've been told that HTML5 & SVG are taking over vector graphics > for the web for nearly 5 years now. There are still painful holes in the > implementations. Without things like iD driving things forward browser > vendors will have little reason to improve the situation. > > There's a limit to how long we can sit back and ooh and aah at new browser > developments without ever actually daring to use them. > > Lots of developers make the mistake of waiting for users to have a shitty experience and then saying, "Hey, you should have used it on a different platform," and they then wonder why they get a bunch of 1-star reviews and unhappy users.
I would imagine that most OSMers would have (at least) Firefox and Chrome/Chromium installed. If iD doesn't work so well on Firefox yet then why not put up a dialog at the start of a session on Firefox telling them they would be better off using Chrome? Kevin
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