On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 01:35:06PM +0100, Rowan Collins wrote:
Thinking about the "Standard" skin naming
issue brought to mind my
least favourite piece of text in the whole MediaWiki interface:
"Recommended for modern browsers".
It's not a note attached to an option somewhere, it is the entire text
of one of the options for "Rendering math" (maybe one day I'll be able
to customize that to "maths"...).
What exactly is a "modern browser"? How "modern" is
"modern"? Does
that include modern text-based browsers, such as ELinks? I doubt it!
What happens in a few years time, when "modern" browsers become able
to do far fancier tricks (and what's now "modern" will be
"older")?
And who is recommending this, and why? And if you're about to answer
that question, hold on to it for a bit; if we have to give an
explanation beyond the text that appears, we might as well just call
it "use this one".
It's explained in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texvc
Please read it first.