John Goerzen wrote: [...] > It would be *great* if this could be fixed before sarge comes out. >
Like Mike already said, those sites or applications also break with many other browsers. The, often limited, knowledge of the browsers by the developer shouldn't be a reason to limit the usage of those sites or applications. As a person who has developed web apps and has had to deal with this my opinion is to follow the specs and implement remedies in a best-effort manner for those browsers that don't follow or support the specs. Any UA-based decision to say some browser is supported is silly and is meant to fail. Is it hard?, sure. Takes time?, yup. Should we give up?, I say no. Opera started the "Open the Web" effort to educate people about different browsers and standards. The other browsers are not alone. What's more, they often give seminars at universities[1] and they created the "Web Standards Curriculum"[2]; both meant to educate and help spread standards. I think it is time for the project to recognise this kind of freedom issues and stand still and fight against those that keep limiting our freedom. [1]http://www.opera.com/company/education/tours/ [2]http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/1-introduction-to-the-web-standards-cur/ Regards, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
