[Wikipedia-l] RE: performance tweak

Wed Nov 6 11:24:28 UTC 2002

Erik Zachte wrote:

>Follow up suggestion: make Wikipedia block all MS Explorer users. It
>will probably reduce traffic by 90%.
>
I'd vote for that. We'd be blocking a lot of junk edits :-)

> Get real. This is the world we live
>in: web designers will have to adjust to their user base not vice versa.
>

Nope. The W3C sets standards and websites and browsers follow them.

If the people who program web browsers *don't* follow them, then it's 
unfortunate that the end-user gets caught in the crossfire. But there 
are now plenty of free, (fairly) compliant browsers out there, such as 
Mozilla: not that big a download on a modem & easy to install. Ditch IE 
and be free :-)

Most browsers open a link in a new window with a *modifier key*+click -- 
even IE -- though I would say that tabbed browsing is a necessity for 
RecentChanges weeding.