My Walkthrough [Part 1 - Buy Ben NanoNote]

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Sat Feb 13 18:27:18 EST 2010


Also, anyone can submit a greasemonkey or altered html or css to fix issues
:) its a challenge :)

Jon

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Mirko Lindner <mirko at sharism.cc> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Bas Wijnen <wijnen at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 04:23:49PM -0800, Ron K. Jeffries wrote:
> >> A different opinion:
> >>
> >> We want [need] as many people to buy and use the Most Excellent (and
> VERY free)
> >> Nanonote as possible.
> >>
> >> A web site that's usable by PEOPLE who are interested in this
> >> fine product should not require them to abandon the [mainstream] browser
> >> they currently prefer.
> >
> > I find it unlikely that people interested in free hardware will have IE
> > as their preferred browser.  This is based on nothing, though.
>
> I belief the point here was, that we should not limit people to access
> the site, because of their preferred browsers. The beauty of our
> hardware project is, that you don't need to know how free it actually
> is to like it.
>
> Even if the customer loves Windows, has an iPad and has never heard of
> gnu/linux, if s/he finds a cute little device with a convincing
> software package we have a shot at getting to her/him. People do not
> expect a full Win on a small dictionary or wikipedia device etc. So
> let's have a page which in design and technicalities opens us to as
> many people as possible.
>
> My 2 cents on this.
>
> >
> >> Making a straight ahead site such as sharism.cc work with major browsers
> >> is not a big deal. [the small glitch I saw is already FIXED!]
> >>
> >> Let's not be so ultra-purist that we reject people who have not YET
> >> totally  accepted the free, open, libre. copyleft dogma.
> >>
> >> > Bas Wijnen schreef:
> >> >> I suggest dropping support for non-free browsers (IE and Safari), and
> >> >> adding http://validator.w3.org/ to the list[1].  If it validates, it
> >> >> most likely already works in all browsers except IE.
> >
> > This however is still true.  If the site validates, it will work
> > everywhere.  If the IE support isn't tested anyway, a validating site
> > actually stands a bigger chance of working there than a non-validating
> > site.
> >
> > So I'm not suggesting to make life harder for non-free browsers.  I am
> > suggesting to put no time in them.  Follow the standards, let them be
> > able to read standard sites properly.  For the most part, even IE
> > already does (AFAIK).
>
> I am in full agreement here. Started getting rid of validator errors.
> Once this is done and I did the changes to the webpage, it would be
> great if people from the list here could browse to our page and give
> us feedback on the appearance. Let's make this project about open in
> every aspect imaginable.
>
> /mirko
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bas
> >
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