Linux and websites
» 11/09/2006, 10:40:37 / / / Subscribe
I wish you Windows based developer people would consider Linux people when you make websites. We consider your OS when we make them.
Frankly I am tired of visiting sites where I have to change my user-agent to something else (usually Windows) just to see half of it. Also when are you people going to understand that using specific pixel sizes in CSS is a BAD idea? Not to mention the swathes of JavaScript that won't work because you only seem to have Firefox and Internet Explorer on WinXP in mind when you're writing.
Embarrassingly for some of you, you tout the accessibility flag. How sad that you consider the world to only be on Windows or a Mac. Fact of the matter is that plenty of us are on a Linux based OS. Sure we have Mozilla, Firefox; in fact more browsers to choose from than you can get on Windows. The problem is that you lot forget about us. We quite often don't have Verdana installed, nor Arial and most people's choice in fixed width, serif or monospace is awful. We don't run Windows JavaScript so your OS specific functions don't work. Like everyone else we have a back button that negates your AJAX dead in the water like a belly up fish.
Let's not even talk mobile devices either.
When it comes to actually being accessible, half you champions of it wouldn't even know what it meant.
Rant over :)
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