Comments on: No Browse Happy Plugin

By: There’s a plugin for that… | Wordpress Romania

There’s a plugin for that… | Wordpress Romania — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:14:35 +0000

[...] Cei care folosesc de mai multă vreme wordpress știu că în versiunile mai vechi exista un link în footerul părții de administrare a blogului către Browse Happy, ce promovează folosirea oricărui alt browser în locul Internet Explorer, link ce apărea numai sub IE. Din această cauză a apărut un plugin care elimina linkul respectiv pe numele lui No Browse Happy WordPress Plugin. Află tot contextul aici. [...]

By: Retiring my No Browse Happy Plugin - Night Dreaming (by Sudar)

Retiring my No Browse Happy Plugin - Night Dreaming (by Sudar) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:27:29 +0000

[...] In earlier version of WordPress (2.5 and earlier), it used to display the Browse Happy logo in the footer of admin pages, if you login using IE. There were lot of discussion about it in the wp-hackers list and I created the Plugin in an effort to stop the argument. [...]

By: a concerned student

a concerned student — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:36:07 +0000

hello, browse happy is blocked at my high school by our network nanny, apparently it talks about “Freeware/shareware”, as a a matter of fact, most open source sites i try to go to are blocked because they are “freeware/shareware” sites, which they not, since shareware, freeware and open source software are all different, anyways, open source is obviously horribly dangerous to us impressionable high school students, we might get some crazy idea in our heads to use free and open source software instead of bowing to gigantic multi-billion dollar corporations and locked software like we’re supposed to.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:35:16 +0000

Milorad,

What’s childish is calling a public service announcement like Browse Happy “activism shoved down your throat”. Wordpress isn’t promoting a browser, but rather security on the internet. The problem is that IE (even version 7) does not stand up to this promotion.

In fact, if you actually READ the Browse Happy “manifesto” you’ll find that it has nothing to do with web standards at all. In other words, it isn’t a frustrated designer problem, it’s a frustrated user problem.

I think this plugin is excellent, but not because it does anything magnificent, but rather because maybe now that you have a way to hide the possibility that you’re making a foolish decision by sticking with a dangerous browser, you can stop calling the rest of us, who want a better browser experience, stupid.

By: Sudar

Sudar — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:13:58 +0000

@Milorad,

Nice to know that you like my Plugin.

By: Milorad

Milorad — Sat, 03 May 2008 09:43:55 +0000

Well, I think it’s excellent. I don’t need to have someone’s activism shoved down my throat on my own website. It’s completely unprofessional to promote a browser, and takes me back to the great netscape wars of 1995.

So childish, and the mark of a frustrated web designer, nothing else. I’m overjoyed to see it go, not because its particularly problematic, but because stupidity irritates me and frankly I don’t need any help raising my blood pressure.

Thanks for this. I should have thought of it myself.