More Publican Pain

[Eric Christensen]

On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 11:50 -0400, John J. McDonough wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric Christensen" <eric at christensenplace.us>
> To: "For participants of the Documentation Project" 
> <fedora-docs-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 10:31 AM
> Subject: Re: More Publican Pain
> 
> > As far as I can tell, it is a problem with IE and not Publican.
> > When the W3C validation comes up clean it is meeting the
> > spec.  IE has always had problems meeting the spec, which
> > is unfortunate and not our problem, in my opinion.  We are
> > doing our due diligence to make sure it meets the
> > international spec.  Microsoft should be doing the same.
> 
> I agree that the problem is in IE, but it *IS* our problem.
> 
> These issues are livable to the faithful.  A little trashy but the important 
> information is all readable.
> 
> But the overwhelming majority of those we want to convert will be looking at 
> our docs using the world's most popular browser, seeing the docs are trash, 
> and deciding that Fedora must be trash, too.  That, sir, is very much OUR 
> problem.
> 
> --McD
> 

Okay, I'm impressed...

So check out the stats[1] for docs.fp.o.  While most of our visitors are
running Windows (53.4%), most are NOT running IE (only 20.9% versus
Firefox users at 63.8%).  Still, 1,361,844 people running IE (just this
year) is a nice chunk of users.

If we can "fix" the problems without breaking the validation then go for
it, but we should be meeting an international standard and not what
Microsoft feels like using for their browser.

Can we file a bug against IE7?

Eric


[1] http://fedoraproject.org/awstats/docs.fedoraproject.org/
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