From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Fri Sep 26 2003 - 09:08:37 EDT
On 26/09/2003 05:33, John Cowan wrote:
>Peter Kirk scripsit:
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>>Since there is plenty of good and free browser software available which
>>does support UTF-8, perhaps servers should start assuming that browsers
>>can support it, and that will gently encourage software vendors and
>>users to upgrade.
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>Alas, we are in a cleft stick: almost all users are now using a
>browser that is not going to be upgraded, short of replacing their
>operating system.
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Almost all users of what? This isn't true of Windows, and for better or
for worse the majority of all browser users use Windows. Windows, at
least 98+, nags you to upgrade to the latest version of IE whether you
want to or not - which is annoying on my old PC which hasn't got the
disk space for IE6. Mozilla also nags you to upgrade, so it's not just a
Microsoft thing. And probably most users of non-Windows systems are
either reasonably computer literate or are supported by IT departments
which should do the upgrade.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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