.. an essay on the fact that the user experience of the Net is ripe for revolution, and proposed that we start telling the world that if they use any browser but Microsoft Internet Explorer, they will have a better browsing experience. [ongoing]
In which essar we find:
We need a tight, crisp “Use a Better Browser” button that has a mouse-over and is linked to a message somewhere, and the message is simple:
If you were looking at this in any browser but Microsoft Internet Explorer, it would look and run better and faster.
I’d put one of those buttons on ongoing if it was good. I bet a few thousand other bloggers would too, if a few of us took the lead.
Now the trouble is, I've looked at the ongoing essay using IE 6 (OK, I'm using Zeepe 7 RadioCase, but its the IE renderer) and using Gecko based Phoenix. I can see no visual difference what-so-ever and it doesn't run any faster under Pheonix (it has a new name now, can't offhand remember what it is). And that's the trouble, Gecko et al may (do!) have better standards support, are likely to have some development over the next couple of years, will have a development path for OSs other than Longhorn but until such time as there is a demonstrable reason for switching on the generality of web pages, people are not going to switch. A plethora of web pages telling a story (...it would look better...) that isn't really true is not going to help.
posted at: 9:19:09 AM 
|
|
