Dunderklumpen wrote:If you do not understand the importance of sticking to standards and are not even willing to listen to reason - you are a troll
Wrong. If you do not understand the importance of sticking to standards and are not a tech-headed geek, then it means you are just an ordinary user who only cares about things working with as little pain as possible, regardless of the technical details or excuses. Until you elitist geek types drop your bad "we're so technically superior" attitude and start catering to what average, non-technical computer users expect, you will never constitute any real competition for any of Microsoft's products.
Dunderklumpen wrote:If you design a website and create a design for one browser only (IE) and are not willing to listen to reason - you are a troll
Wrong again. If you are a business, you will design for whatever browser(s) are used by most potential customers. You might half-heartedly try to standard compliance, but your first priority is making it look and work right for the majority of users. If 90% of your potential customer base is IE, then that is what you are going to design for. That is reality. Again, until you elitist open-source geek types drop your bad "we're so technically superior" attitude and start catering to what businesses expect and need, you will never constitute any real competition for ANY of Microsoft's products. People simply won't use your stuff if it does not meet their needs better than Microsoft's offerings.
Dunderklumpen wrote:If the whole point of the posting is saying that you will stick with IE not matter what - you are a troll
Wrong a third time! The whole point of my posting is to enlighten you poor geek bastards as to what average, non-technical users expect and demand from their web browser, and to give you a look into the thought processes that cause average people to continue to use IE. It doesn't matter whether you think those reasons are sensible or not -- only the user's opinions matter, whether you agree with them or not. That's another one of the huge failings of the open-source development model -- you people write software only for yourselves, and you think that anyone with different opinions must therfore just be "wrong" and not worth a second thought. On the contrary, people like you are in the minority in this world, and if you want your hard work to gain in popularity and dominance, you need to not only respect but cater to the majority of people who are not like you.
That is why Microsoft consistently delivers on what the majority of people want. They research their potential customers, listen to their opinions, and integrate that feedback directly into their products. Microsoft doesn't pass judgment on its users, it just listens to them and works like a well-oiled machine to give them what they want. BillG's geeks in Redmond don't write the software for themselves, and they don't even have to agree with the design of the software they are writing. Marketing research defines customer needs for the software designers, the designers write the specs to meet those needs, and the devs code what was spec'd. The end result is software that directy meets the needs of the majority.
The open-source community desperately needs to drop this ego-driven defensiveness and start listening to and respecting what real computer users want -- without shrugging it off as stupid, wrong, or unintelligent.
