On Wed, 30 May 2001, James Oakley wrote:
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On May 30, 2001 03:50 am, Alan Lenton wrote:
Nice idea. One useful thing would be a 'testing' service. A lot of people don't use linux on the desktop, and so have no means of checking themselves. (My own company falls into this category, we use linux servers, but not the desktop yet)
I'm sure there are people around who would like to ask for their site to be checked by someone with linux browsers so they could make any changes necessary.
I think that's a great idea. I'd like to see a user system. Companies can add their sites to the database and users can review them with their browser of choice. Users can get points (not actually worth anything) for providing good reviews of new sites in the database.
The companies would be likely to add their sites as they're getting that much extra traffic on their sites.
An RDF interface would be neat, too. I read Slashdot's main page, then go to the boxes I configured. Going directly to various sites is something I rarely do.
If you're really ambitious (I would help out with all of this, if you wanted, BTW) you could have an XMLRPC site-query system. Then you can embed the functionality into a browser, say Konqueror. If I'm having trouble with a site, I can select a menu option that brings up info on that site regarding compatibility, workarounds for specific problems, etc. Or how about a glowing "supported" icon. Kind of a mood ring for browsers that glows brighter and more colourful as you're browsing better sites. That would tie in to the gold, silver, bronze thing.
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Wow! Thanks for all the kind offers, I am getting about the same from work too. So this really was a good idea. Actually, it was hard to sleep last night :-). Lets hope no-one put in the domain request a few minutes before I did hehe. I should get the final e-mail tonight :-). Again, thanks. I will keep everyone updated. Yes, I do see this as a bulwark against the incursion of MSFT and a way to keep the standards going. Matt