<div dir="ltr"><p>+1, +1, +1....<br>
</p><p>You hit the nail on the head - the more people abandon *old* IE, the more Israeli web site will have to cater for them and in the process they'll become compatible with the rest of us.</p>
<p>I see it first hand every day - I live in a Window-less world - Desktop Linux at home and work, Android with Android/Chrome/Firefox on my mobile, and even my wife uses Firefox on her Windows. And I never, ever, have trouble accessing any web site, including (Australian) government web sites except when I happen to access Israeli sites. Even the open-source sites are backwords in their support for mobile (but at least they appear OK on my desktops).</p>
<p>--Amos<br></p><p></p><div class="gmail_quote">On May 24, 2012 6:02 PM, "Dotan Cohen" <<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com" target="_blank">dotanco</a><a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com" target="_blank">hen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Shlomi Fish <<a href="mailto:shlomif@shlomifish.org" target="_blank">shlomif@shlomifish.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Dotan,<br>
><br>
> On Tue, 22 May 2012 02:23:30 +0300<br>
> Dotan Cohen <<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com" target="_blank">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> As probably most people on the list do, I try to get friends and<br>
>> family off Internet Explorer. Recently on Slashdot there was mention<br>
>> of a game that only works in Chrome:<br>
>> <a href="http://getcrackin.angrybirds.com/" target="_blank">http://getcrackin.angrybirds.com/</a><br>
>><br>
>> Angry Birds is a popular game, and just sending this link to people<br>
>> gets most of them to install Chrome! So I encourage other list members<br>
>> to "suggest" this game to friends and family. Don't even mention<br>
>> Chrome, let them discover that detail on their own.<br>
><br>
> I've spoken with someone from Mozilla-Israel (BCCed to this message) now and he<br>
> told me that Angry Birds works fine in Mozilla Firefox too (though it may not be<br>
> mentioned there and may require changing the User-Agent header). In general, I<br>
> think that restricting features to particular browsers, even if they are<br>
> open-source (which is the case for the Google Chromium project and not for<br>
> Google Chrome itself), hurts the open web and causes web fragmentation:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/2010/08/31/" target="_blank">http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/2010/08/31/</a><br>
><br>
> That put aside, I don't mind if sites will be displayed or behave in a<br>
> somewhat broken manner in old versions (or even new version) of Microsoft<br>
> Internet Explorer, as I explained here:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/" target="_blank">http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/</a><br>
><br>
> This is because Microsoft is not doing enough to conform to the web standards,<br>
> and there are open-source alternatives for MSIE everywhere it runs.<br>
><br>
> I should also note that with all the noise surrounding Chrome's performance, the<br>
> automated tests for the JS port of my ABC-Path solver and generator ran<br>
> significantly faster when I tested them on Firefox:<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/abc-path/overview" target="_blank">https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/abc-path/overview</a><br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
><br>
> Shlomi Fish<br>
><br>
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Thank you for the insight, Shlomi. I happen to agree with everything<br>
that you've mentioned!<br>
<br>
However, the goal of promoting this site is not to provide a web<br>
application for any use or entertainment. Rather, the goal is to give<br>
people a reason to install and use a browser other than Internet<br>
Explorer. This is especially critical here in Israel where as a Linux<br>
user with no access to IE I cannot use many government websites. We<br>
need to get a critical mass off of IE.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Dotan Cohen<br>
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