Having Firefox as the deafult browser for my website

Posted by Aniket Dasgupta on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 06:48Community Marketing Projects

I have redesigned my site http://limesphere.com to work with FireFox Only.

It will not render well on any other browser plus i have put a banner on the opening page after all a social networking site like mine can do a lot to make firefox even more popular 


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Web Standards
Submitted by JustZisGuy on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 21:57.

If you are coding to "web standards" I don't see any real problem with that. It should work in Opera, Safari, and SeaMonkey but if it doesn't work in IE because IE does something wrong then people just need to get a better browser. :P And if in the future IE 8 fixes the problems, then great. 

And I don't know about anybody else, but I am OK with sites offering "extra features" for Firefox users if the site works well enough elsewhere otherwise. To me it seems a waste to have such an advanced browser and not take advantage of its features.

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More vendor lock-in?
Submitted by Kelson on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 19:11.

It's your choice, of course, but are you sure you want to exclude all other browsers?  Locking your audience to Firefox only is, in my opinion, not much better (if at all) than making it IE-only.  It's a step backward from the original vision of the web as a platform-independent network (see the Viewable with Any Browser Campaign).  It also doesn't fit in with Mozilla's mission to "preserve choice and innovation on the Internet."

Plus, consider that an increasing number of people are accessing the web from devices that aren't desktop computers: phones, other handheld devices, gaming systems (the Nintendo Wii, for example).  Firefox isn't available on mobile devices, and many of them can't switch browsers anyway.

Still, if you really want to make things harder for your potential audience, I can't stop you.

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Limesphere.com-Proud To
Submitted by Aniket Dasgupta on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 06:50.


Limesphere.com-Proud To Support Fox

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