The developers were very clear that 4.0 was meant to be a dirty release in order to get the development ball rolling on applications. I have been following the dev closely and for each new milestone, I have tried the live cds. I wouldnt dare use it as my main desktop yet. If you thought 4.0 was supposed to be stable, you obviously dont read or pay attention to what the devs have been saying all along! I really liked the new direction the 4.x is headed in. It will take some getting used to for those who naturally fear change, but by 4.2 or later, I am sure we will look back and praise the devs brave steps... or curse them, ha! We will have to wait and see how Kde shapes. I think the growing pains will be worth it.
I tried to send the message below, but both FireFox 2.0 and Safari 2.0 (on OSX 10.4.8) threw back errors. I have no idea if WalMart even got my message... ---
Well, it looks like I won't be doing any online video downloads from WalMart.com. I find it odd, that one of the largest retailers in the world would *assume* that everyone who visits their video download site is using Internet Explorer 6+ on a PC! I use a Macintosh with FireFox as my browser, and I use Linux as well as other flavors of Unix, also with FireFox as my browser. IE6 isn't even available for Mac OS X.
While I don't expect WalMart to try to cater to absolutely everyone under every possible computing condition, I do expect that you would not exclude such a large segment of your customers by limiting us to 1 browser on 1 operating system.
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The developers were very clear that 4.0 was meant to be a dirty release in order to get the development ball rolling on applications. I have been following the dev closely and for each new milestone, I have tried the live cds. I wouldnt dare use it as my main desktop yet. If you thought 4.0 was supposed to be stable, you obviously dont read or pay attention to what the devs have been saying all along! I really liked the new direction the 4.x is headed in. It will take some getting used to for those who naturally fear change, but by 4.2 or later, I am sure we will look back and praise the devs brave steps... or curse them, ha! We will have to wait and see how Kde shapes. I think the growing pains will be worth it.
I tried to send the message below, but both FireFox 2.0 and Safari 2.0 (on OSX 10.4.8) threw back errors. I have no idea if WalMart even got my message...
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Well, it looks like I won't be doing any online video downloads from WalMart.com. I find it odd, that one of the largest retailers in the world would *assume* that everyone who visits their video download site is using Internet Explorer 6+ on a PC! I use a Macintosh with FireFox as my browser, and I use Linux as well as other flavors of Unix, also with FireFox as my browser. IE6 isn't even available for Mac OS X.
While I don't expect WalMart to try to cater to absolutely everyone under every possible computing condition, I do expect that you would not exclude such a large segment of your customers by limiting us to 1 browser on 1 operating system.
How do I know we're a large segment? Look at the stats... http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.
FireFox is currently 31% with Internet Explorer not that far ahead at 42.3%.
I think you should consider expanding your horizons when deciding what browsers you support on your web site.