Sveinbjorn Thordarson

Sumum lesendum síðunnar er e.t.v. kunnugt að ég birti skilaboð til IE notenda efst á síðunni:

You are using a second-rate browser

For a better experience using this site, please upgrade to a modern web browser.

Um daginn áttu sér eftirfarandi samskipti:

From: Sveinbjorn Thordarson    
To: matt@**********
Subject: Re: Web Email Form: Your website

matt@***** wrote:

>   I was interested in trying out, and potentially purchasing
>   Tapir. However, your condescending approach to my use of 
>   Internet Explorer 8 has made me reconsider:
>   
>   "You are using a second-rate browser
>   For a better experience using this site, please upgrade to
>   a modern web browser."
>   
>   However, none of the options you suggest can hold a candle 
>   to IE8's CSS 2.1 support. Nor do they run in a reduced 
>   privileges mode, by default. And, unlike Gecko-based 
>   browsers, I can have simultaneous "private" and 
>   "non-private" browsing sessions.
>   
>   While I commend trying to get IE 6 off the Internet 
>   (it IS ancient, and Microsoft wants it gone, too...), targeting
>   these efforts at *all* Internet Explorer users is unfair 
>   and reeks of bigotry and anti-Microsoft fanboyism. This is 
>   cemented by your lack of information about what makes the 
>   browser "second-rate" and the fact that "closing" the div 
>   doesn't remember that it was closed, hammering in your views 
>   which lack any elaboration.
>   
>   I will spend my money elsewhere and make it a point not to
>   refer others to your site, as long as you continue to be 
>   bigoted in your views of what a "modern" browser should be,
>   especially without giving any facts.
>   
>   IP Address: **************
>   User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0;
>   WOW64; Trident/4.0; QQPinyin 689; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; 
>   Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; 
>   MS-RTC LM 8; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; 
>   .NET CLR 3.0.30729)

Hello there,

I very much doubt you were at any stage interested in purchasing 
Tapir, which is old software for Mac OS X which has not been updated 
since 2005. The only reason I didn't open-source it a long time ago 
is sheer laziness.  Feel free to spend your money elsewhere.

As for IE, it is a second-rate browser by several objective 
standards:  it is slow, it has a flawed and bloated rendering engine 
and furthermore does not have proper support for Data URIs or certain 
CSS features used on my website.  Even if that were not the case, 
Microsoft's long stranglehold on the browser market (and its 
detrimental consequences for web development)  would be reason enough 
to encourage people to switch.

I would like to add that I provide my website as it is.  I 
promulgate whatever views I care to, and I encourage the use of those
technologies I regard as superior.  I don't need you, or your money, 
or your approval.  By all means spend your surfing time elsewhere.

--Sveinbjorn Thordarson