Comments on: firefox advertising http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/ Ali Ebrahim on web standards, software developement, technology, politics and law. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:34:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Thomas Scholz http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-270 Thomas Scholz Fri, 26 Nov 2004 03:53:52 +0000 http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/#comment-270 The first thing I noted was the lack of a 'minimum font size' setting in IE: I cannot read your navigation bar. Oh my, back to Opera. :) The first thing I noted was the lack of a ‘minimum font size’ setting in IE: I cannot read your navigation bar.
Oh my, back to Opera. :)

]]> By: Ali Ebrahim http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-269 Ali Ebrahim Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:20:06 +0000 http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/#comment-269 To the anon loser who is posting from Chicago. I blog about things I think will interest other people. What's the point in writing a blog that has things that nobody cares about? A blog is not a complete person. Anyway, I don't know why I'm wasting time responding to anonymous flames. Jeff, IE users see an extra blog entry urging them to download Firefox. dolphinling, not quite sure what you mean by this. George, I used conditional comments that only IE picks up on. You can find more info on that <a href="http://www.quirksmode.org/index.html?/css/condcom.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Michael, because while my objective is to get users off IE onto something else, it doesn't hurt to plug Firefox to other users as well. Besides I set this up only last night, and haven't really had time to let the design bake yet. anonymous, while Ben's goal is also noble, I don't want to make my site completely inaccessible to those using IE. It sucks, and is general bad behaviour to do so. RafG, thanks. You're absolutely right, and I don't know why I didn't do this to begin with. It's fixed. Robert, cool! :) To the anon loser who is posting from Chicago. I blog about things I think will interest other people. What’s the point in writing a blog that has things that nobody cares about? A blog is not a complete person. Anyway, I don’t know why I’m wasting time responding to anonymous flames.

Jeff, IE users see an extra blog entry urging them to download Firefox.

dolphinling, not quite sure what you mean by this.

George, I used conditional comments that only IE picks up on. You can find more info on that here.

Michael, because while my objective is to get users off IE onto something else, it doesn’t hurt to plug Firefox to other users as well. Besides I set this up only last night, and haven’t really had time to let the design bake yet.

anonymous, while Ben’s goal is also noble, I don’t want to make my site completely inaccessible to those using IE. It sucks, and is general bad behaviour to do so.

RafG, thanks. You’re absolutely right, and I don’t know why I didn’t do this to begin with. It’s fixed.

Robert, cool! :)

]]> By: Robert Accettura http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-268 Robert Accettura Thu, 25 Nov 2004 23:07:10 +0000 http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/#comment-268 Good idea... I think I'll follow your lead. I'll try to make some time to edit my site later. Good idea…

I think I’ll follow your lead. I’ll try to make some time to edit my site later.

]]> By: RafG http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-267 RafG Thu, 25 Nov 2004 22:59:06 +0000 http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/#comment-267 Actually, since you're already targetting Internet Explorer users anyway, it would make more sense to wrap the 'advertising DIV' in that conditonal comment: That way, user agents that do not support CSS won't have to put up with it. Actually, since you’re already targetting Internet Explorer users anyway, it would make more sense to wrap the ‘advertising DIV’ in that conditonal comment:

That way, user agents that do not support CSS won’t have to put up with it.

]]> By: anonymous http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-266 anonymous Thu, 25 Nov 2004 22:15:29 +0000 http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/#comment-266 I like <a href="http://www.bengoodger.com/weblog/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bengoodger.com/weblog/</a> more :-) I like http://www.bengoodger.com/weblog/ more :-)

]]> By: Michael Kjeldsen http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-265 Michael Kjeldsen Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:50:22 +0000 http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/#comment-265 How come you still show the "small" GetFIREFOX-banner on the left in Firefox?? How come you still show the “small” GetFIREFOX-banner on the left in Firefox??

]]> By: george deka http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-264 george deka Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:30:08 +0000 http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/#comment-264 Brilliant, can you post the source for it. Brilliant, can you post the source for it.

]]> By: dolphinling http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-263 dolphinling Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:39:36 +0000 http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/#comment-263 Wonderful :-) Of course, now your stats are going to be all skewed towards IE... :-P Wonderful :-) Of course, now your stats are going to be all skewed towards IE… :-P

]]> By: Jeff Walden http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-262 Jeff Walden Thu, 25 Nov 2004 17:48:46 +0000 http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/#comment-262 I might if I were able to use IE right now. As I'm booted in Linux and my Windows install is hosed, I can't. Care to enlighten those of us who can't look? I might if I were able to use IE right now. As I’m booted in Linux and my Windows install is hosed, I can’t. Care to enlighten those of us who can’t look?

]]> By: Anon http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-261 Anon Thu, 25 Nov 2004 17:38:43 +0000 http://blog.ebrahim.org/2004/11/25/firefox-advertising/#comment-261 Is there anything inside your head besides Firefox? Is there anything inside your head besides Firefox?

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