Get FireFox button ?

[Sijmen Mulder]

He's got a point there. The target audience is mostly the Linux user -
which won't be using Internet Explorer anyways!

2005/7/6, Marcelo Duarte :
> Wine uses an Mozilla ActiveX in shdocvw, and Jacek is using Gecko in
> another part, forcing the user to have Firefox, no?
> In another side, the user of Wine, is using Linux and Firefox or another
> Open Source Browser, not IE.
>
> [e-mail] escreveu:
> > Yes but anyone looking a wine knows about Linux and knows about the
> > ammount crap to expect for IE be it on wine or windows
> >
> > I find it hard to imagine that anyone coming to wine needs to be made
> > aware of FF or any other non-IE browser.
> >
> > The Open-standards link suggested would be a good idea for a link page
> > but  I agree with Marcus that it is not needed on the front page.
> >
> > Why not some worthy appeal buttons as well , Tsunami victims are less
> > important than FireFox?
> >
> > m2c ;)
> >
> > On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:27:12 +0200, Andreas Mohr
> >  wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:46:06PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
> > > > By the way, did you guys know that Mozilla.org links to CX on the
> > > > plugins page?
> > > >
> > > > http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html
> > > >
> > > > Check the bottom of the page.
> > > >
> > > > They even bring Wine into it, and compliment Codeweavers for their
> > > > support of the Wine project.
> > > >
> > > > Damn decent of them, really.
> > > >
> > > > But, whatever.
> > > >
> > > > Holly
> > >
> > > Do I sense some slight disagreement in this mail? ;-)
> > >
> > > Well, I for one am slightly astonished about that FireFox button
> > > reaction.
> > >
> > > The whole world is talking about the lack of interoperability or
> > > community
> > > efforts within the OSS community, and here we are blindly rejecting
> > > any attempt to go into such a direction.
> > >
> > > So, while it can very easily be considered not very "PC" to place a
> > > specific
> > > Mozilla button on the main page, a non-specific "you may get a
> > > standards-compliant browser here" button surely cannot hurt?
> > > (provided a decent web site exists for such an effort, and provided we
> > > really want to do that)
> > >
> > > I mean, *did* we have a huge amount of pain from all the non-standard
> > > web pages caused by the "less than perfectly" interoperable
> > > Intrusion  Engine,
> > > or didn't we?
> > > And *did* we have huge pains from the continually reoccurring security
> > > issues of IE or didn't we?
> > >
> > > Next time you tell us we should remove the donation button from the
> > > web page since it distracts users...
> > >
> > > Andreas Mohr

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Sijmen Mulder