DShadow didn't understand the WASP editorial. They are asking Web developers to help push a transition to a Web that wholy conforms to W3 standards _while acknowledging_ that there is a time and a place to use the tactics proposed, which include different levels of force/annoyance/subtlety. Of course you wouldn't risk losing customers on a comercial site, even while you can still subtly remind them that their experience would be a whole lot better if they did upgrade.
While Alexa may report that users are stupid, many of them have been very capable of upgrading their browsers multiple times before, and now it's time to convince them that there is a compelling reason to do it once more. In most cases they can still see all the content, but their experience will be significantly better if they have any standards-capable browser.
This is NOT about style (as in fashion) or flash (either Macromedia's or simple eye-candy). Content alone is good, but content plus good design is a thousand times better (read Tufte). I doubt you would read certain camel book if it were printed in continuous form paper on a 9-pin dot matrix printer.
We've lost too much time and money on senseless hacks to make content workable in all platforms and this transition will result in faster/cheaper turn-around times for web projects when we're free of older browsers. I'm sure users and clients will like that a lot.
You won't upgrade? fine, you'll go get your content some place else, like you always have. But you did upgrade before, and will again. We want that time to come sooner, rather than later.
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DShadow didn't understand the WASP editorial. They are asking Web developers to help push a transition to a Web that wholy conforms to W3 standards _while acknowledging_ that there is a time and a place to use the tactics proposed, which include different levels of force/annoyance/subtlety. Of course you wouldn't risk losing customers on a comercial site, even while you can still subtly remind them that their experience would be a whole lot better if they did upgrade.
While Alexa may report that users are stupid, many of them have been very capable of upgrading their browsers multiple times before, and now it's time to convince them that there is a compelling reason to do it once more. In most cases they can still see all the content, but their experience will be significantly better if they have any standards-capable browser.
This is NOT about style (as in fashion) or flash (either Macromedia's or simple eye-candy). Content alone is good, but content plus good design is a thousand times better (read Tufte). I doubt you would read certain camel book if it were printed in continuous form paper on a 9-pin dot matrix printer.
We've lost too much time and money on senseless hacks to make content workable in all platforms and this transition will result in faster/cheaper turn-around times for web projects when we're free of older browsers. I'm sure users and clients will like that a lot.
You won't upgrade? fine, you'll go get your content some place else, like you always have. But you did upgrade before, and will again. We want that time to come sooner, rather than later.