[thelist] Re: a REALLY responsive Web host, and A White Paper or Kit on standards based coding

Joel Canfield joel at spinhead.com
Wed Jul 10 08:45:00 CDT 2002


> Ya know, as a sometime professional marketer, I can assure
> you that what WOULD work is making freely available, to
> everyone who visits a newsstand or bookstore or coffeeshop, a
> CD of a GOOD (compliant) browser. (Perhaps mailing several to
> everyone on every mailing list, a la AOL, would be overkill!)
> Once the surfers of the world are using a standards-compliant
> browser (which didn't take too long to download, set itself
> up automatically, found the previous default browser & took
> over its bookmarks, etc. -- and handled mail well), the
> bosses would comply automatically. To facilitate adoption of
> your chosen browser, simply wait while the current crop of
> virus-makers continues to make life hell for IE users, and
> publish articles everywhere about the security holes in IE.

The single biggest browser issue I know of is the Netscape 4 versions.
They're still around because they're the favorites of the big corporations.
And big corporations generally make changes based on revenue. There's
virtually no reason for these folks to spend the time and money to switch
browsers. What *would* motivate them would be a gradual shift from the
workaround hack coding so many of us use, to a more forward-compatible
style.

Which is exactly what the WaSP is trying to accomplish.

joel



More information about the thelist mailing list