Firefox Support
Let me give you a lesson in the small part you can play in fighting the battles you believe need to be fought. I am a member of a website called GoZing Surveys which pays petty cash to participate in surveys. Yes, I know some people may find this intrusive but I like having enough free money for an ice cream in exchange for telling people whether I prefer Johnson & Johnson Q-tips to store brand.
Now a lot of their surveys do not support Firefox and this is totally unacceptable. I refuse to use IE- the web site can lose my business. However, in the spirit of SpreadFirefox I believe that the battle will be won by not opening IE AND by informing businesses that they are losing customers. So this what I wrote them (OTX Research is a company that does the surveys on GZ’s behalf):OTX Research, I find it deplorable that you require your users to use Internet Explorer. I refuse to participate in any research until this issue is resolved. I believe you will not have any accurate research until you can find a way to include ALL participants. Until then your research can only be qualified as ‘based on a sampling of avid Internet Explorer users’.I come from the land of Gandhi , my friends. Civil Disobedience is in my blood. The browser wars are only going to get better.As the market share of other browsers increases (as it has and will), ultimately you will lose more than you can imagine. I believe you must already be aware of the issue- however since it is not that difficult to build standards-compliant web sites I cannot imagine what reasons you may have to continue this practice.
Here’s hoping your support for all platforms comes soon,
Devanshu Mehta
UPDATE: These people are more insidious than I thought. The mail bounced! Now to go searching for the true email address. I have emailed the GoZing people and the OTX corporate email.
UPDATE 2: The GoZing help email bounced as well. Just emailed their corporate parent Greenfield. I have too much time on my hands.
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