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Re: pressuring our inclusion (was - Opera & Arabic)
- To: general at arabeyes dot org
- Subject: Re: pressuring our inclusion (was - Opera & Arabic)
- From: Yaser Al-Jarbou <jarbouym at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 00:52:59 -0700 (PDT)
I agree
--- Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> --- Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at arabeyes dot org> wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 October 2002 07:48, Yaser Al-Jarbou
> wrote:
> > > You mentioned Mozilla,Galeon, Konqueror ...
> > > But none of these is like Opera in terms of
> speed and
> > > secirity.
> >
> > Do you have anthing to say about Netscape 7 ? what
> about Mozilla 1.0.1 .. oh
> > they are the same thing ! :-) Mozilla is as good
> and ready to compete with
> > comersial software as any software would be ..
> >
> > > I used opera 6.03, and they publish Opera 7
> which is
> > > not free but has full support of arabic and Bidi
> as
> > > they told me.
> >
> > Mozilla 1.1 already have it .. Arabic Support,
> proper BiDi .. another
> > Superior point for Mozilla :-)
> >
> > I agree that the Opera is good in terms of speed
> .. it got a good algorithem
> > for rendering HTML .. No one can deny .. but
> beside that Mozilla Rulez !
>
> My original post regarding this topic was not to
> start a browser war
> (mine if better than yours, no no mine is best,
> etc). I wanted to truly
> start a conversation about how to organize ourselves
> into ONE cohesive
> unit in terms of pressuring groups (open source
> first and others later)
> into taking Arabic users and their needs more
> seriously. I am extremely
> concerned about the lack of Arabic support in most
> existing and new
> applications. We need to instill in people's mind
> that when they start
> thinking and going down the road of adding "other
> language" support, Arabic
> ought to be high on their list (and thus the
> question of how best to do that
> and I'm suggesting an organized form of email and
> other pressure to have
> ourselves be heard). Please re-read my original
> post with that in mind and
> you ought to see what I was getting at. Don't get
> rapped-up in the Opera
> thing (I should have chosen an open source example
> to complain about (and
> possibly stayed away from browsers all together)),
> but the point is the same.
>
> Suggestions ?
>
> - Nadim
>
>
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