Browser Protest Day, Was Re: [CLUE-Tech] Is this true?

[David Snyder]

jbrockmeier at earthlink.net wrote:

>Here's an idea - Web compatibility day. Pick one day in the near 
>future, say a Saturday or Sunday, for 
>Linux/Mac/*BSD/OS2/BeOS/Netscape/Opera/Lynx users
>to just browse like mad and send off polite comments to companies
>who have IE-only Web pages. 
>
>Between people who use "alternative" operating systems, people who
>use Windows but another browser or people who like Lynx - or require
>it because they're visually impaired - I think we make up at least
>20% of the browsing population. Surely companies don't want to 
>alienate 20% of their potential customer base.
>
>Anyone like this idea?
>
>Zonker
>

A lot of companies will get a rude awakening when AOL and CompuServe 
adopt Mozilla and madate it. :-)

As far as the visually imparied thing... that's a whole other ballgame 
there - take the over-abundance of Flash based websites for example.

David Snyder
http://www.snydersweb.com