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

[Amos Shapira]

+1, +1, +1....

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.

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).

--Amos

On May 24, 2012 6:02 PM, "Dotan Cohen" <dotanco <dotancohen at gmail.com>
hen at gmail.com <dotancohen at gmail.com>> wrote:

> 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
>
> http://gibberish.co.il
> http://what-is-what.com
>
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