So, Neopets finally disabled glowing and shadowed fonts on the neoboards...

[conuly]

Because that stuff is only visible in IE, and a lot of people would have white font surrounded by glowing stuff.

This led to a number of gems, and whining. Obviously, disabling something that only works in one browser is unfair to everybody, because "most" people use IE (most people I know don't, but they're too smart for the neoboards anyway... even if you know nothing of neopets, know this).

And, EoS, post your gem. Post it, post it! The one about how IE can be downloaded for free, and since kids are so tech savvy, they should be able to download it, so there's no reason for them to use anything that doesn't work (by working, she clearly means "show ugly fonts", because shadowed and glowing fonts ARE ugly).

Comments

[eofs.livejournal.com]

"Some people have put a lot of time into making websites just for fonts, it isn't fair to them. You can download most browsers like IE for free - kids are pretty high tech so they could work out how to do this. This is a kids' site so if you don't have the right programs then that's your problem."

I just can't get the last sentence to make sense.

"But a lot of people could see. To get Mozilla you had to actually make the choice to change and download it, so it was those users' fault for not checking in advance whether or not they'd be able to see the effects. Other than that there weren't any problems before that dumb program, err, I mean new explorer came out"

That help?

The Mozilla project actually predates Neopets itself, and of course Netscape came before IE (as IE was its downfall.)

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. That clarifies things a LOT. I was especially stuck on the "hat ur prob" part, among other things... apparently an already indecipherable style of writing was made even more indecipherable by unnoticed and uncorrected typos.

And that was hard to read with English as my first language! I can only imagine how bad it must be for those who speak English as a second language... >_