Re: a game to publicise [was Re: משחק להפיץ]

[Dotan Cohen]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:
> Hi Dotan,
>
> On Tue, 22 May 2012 02:23:30 +0300
> Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As probably most people on the list do, I try to get friends and
>> family off Internet Explorer. Recently on Slashdot there was mention
>> of a game that only works in Chrome:
>> http://getcrackin.angrybirds.com/
>>
>> Angry Birds is a popular game, and just sending this link to people
>> gets most of them to install Chrome! So I encourage other list members
>> to "suggest" this game to friends and family. Don't even mention
>> Chrome, let them discover that detail on their own.
>
> I've spoken with someone from Mozilla-Israel (BCCed to this message) now and he
> told me that Angry Birds works fine in Mozilla Firefox too (though it may not be
> mentioned there and may require changing the User-Agent header). In general, I
> think that restricting features to particular browsers, even if they are
> open-source (which is the case for the Google Chromium project and not for
> Google Chrome itself), hurts the open web and causes web fragmentation:
>
> http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/2010/08/31/
>
> That put aside, I don't mind if sites will be displayed or behave in a
> somewhat broken manner in old versions (or even new version) of Microsoft
> Internet Explorer, as I explained here:
>
> http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/
>
> This is because Microsoft is not doing enough to conform to the web standards,
> and there are open-source alternatives for MSIE everywhere it runs.
>
> I should also note that with all the noise surrounding Chrome's performance, the
> automated tests for the JS port of my ABC-Path solver and generator ran
> significantly faster when I tested them on Firefox:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/abc-path/overview
>
> Regards,
>
>        Shlomi Fish
>

Thank you for the insight, Shlomi. I happen to agree with everything
that you've mentioned!

However, the goal of promoting this site is not to provide a web
application for any use or entertainment. Rather, the goal is to give
people a reason to install and use a browser other than Internet
Explorer. This is especially critical here in Israel where as a Linux
user with no access to IE I cannot use many government websites. We
need to get a critical mass off of IE.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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