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Browser Wars Mark II
Nigel McFarlane writes "I have no life (humour) other than to write articles about Web technology and open technologies, and the way they mediate, enable and transform our public places and our participation opportunities. Mostly I write about Mozilla and Linux, but my latest effort is an attempted wake-up call over Web standards and the future of the Web." Self-deprecation aside, it's a decent article that summarizes the stakes well.
I don't know about you guys, but I refuse to use the bugridden POS that MSIE is. I haven't wasted one byte worth of bandwidth to download .NET and damned if I will. I don't want it, I don't need it.
I know this isn't everyone's aproach. It's probably just /.-zealots who does things this way, but -we- are the geeks. We are the ones who make and maintain the net. Sure there are some noobie-tools like "Front page", but in my experience the noobs still needs help getting the stuff uploaded.
We shouldn't allow Microsoft to take over the net. When doctoring your none-geeks friends machine, simply remove all MS-conspiracy related trash you can find :)
In short, preach and even pressure people who aren't too talented when it comes to computers. Tell them that you will only assist them, if you are allowed to remove and replace "security risks" and "faulty products".
Surely, they cannot object to that? *hope*
Not Buzzword 2.0 compliant. Please speak english.
How many games did you try? Just one or two? The wife has been through every game on that site, some of which brought Mozilla (and then the OS) to its knees.
Vonnegut was right: Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been."
Maybe if it wasn't so convenient, then so-called "web designers" wouldn't use them.
I like to use Links (textbased browser), and when you've got flash menus, you've just cut me off.
The only reason we have the rights we have is that people just like us died to gain those rights. -- Cheerio Boy