We need to inform people that the quality of experience can be substantially improved if they use a browser that supports free formats. Wikimedia only distributes content in free formats because if you have to pay for a licensee to view, edit or publish ~free content~ then the content is not really ~free~.
We have requested that Apple and IE support free formats but they have chosen not to. Therefore we are in a position where we have to recommend a browser that does have a high quality user experience in supporting the formats. We are still making every effort to display the formats in IE & Safari using java or plugins but we should inform people they can have an improved experience on par with proprietary solutions if they are using different browser. --michael Steve Bennett wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Marco > Schuster<ma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org> wrote: > >> We should not recommend Chrome - as good as it is, but it has serious >> privacy problems. >> > > Out of curiosity, why do we need to "recommend" a browser at all, and > why do we think anyone will listen to our "recommendation"? People use > the browser they use. If the site they want to go to doesn't work in > their browser, they'll either not go there, or possibly try another > one. They're certainly not going to change browsers just because the > site told them to. > > Personally, I use Chrome, FF and IE. And the main reason for switching > is just to have different sets of cookies. Occasionally a site doesn't > like Chrome, so I switch. But it's not like I'm going to take a "your > experience would be better in <browser>" statement seriously. > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
