The hebrew issue is not the only problem which may cause the web
masters to allow MSIE only, there is also the DHTML support issue and some
other microsoft extensions that these site developers use.
-------Original Message-------
Date: יום שלישי 21
אוגוסט 2001 12:29:50
Subject: Re: Netscape
6.1 BiDi
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 08:24, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a
Frodo wrote:
> AFAIR Netscape 6.1 is Mozilla 0.9.2. 0.9.2 had
BiDi checked in > already. Anyway, 0.9.3 supports BiDi for sure -
except for a couple > of bugs in cut-n-paste.
Yes, you are
right. It's better than Konqueror - it doesn't mess up Hebrew
input.
Perhaps this is not the right place to raise this issue, but
now that there is a browser which supports logical Hebrew, how about a
campaign to cause the Nana shops not to reject every non-MSIE
browser?
For those who don't know, if you go to Nana, and then go
to one of the Nana shops, using a non-MSIE browser, it gives you a
sour explaination that logical Hebrew is now the standard, and gives
you a link to download MSIE. Not only is this a Hutzpa (OK, they
should let me know, but they shouldn't block my way to the site. If I
see reversed Hebrew, that's my problem, not theirs), but now that
Netscape is fully compatible, this is plainly a Microsoft-pushing
scheme.
I think if each of us Linux users write to the Nana
webmaster politely and explain that Logical Hebrew is supported on our
platform, but MSIE is not, they may be convinced to change their
policy about it, to something more Linux friendly.
(And yes, I
know - I could change the User Agent string, at least in Konqueror.
But I side with the faction that says that a person doesn't need to
know what a user-agent is in order to browse the web on
Linux).
Herouth
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