[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #4254: BrowseHappy Logo Shows Up for IE7

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#4254: BrowseHappy Logo Shows Up for IE7
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 Reporter:  Speedboxer                          |        Owner:  rob1n      
     Type:  defect                              |       Status:  reopened   
 Priority:  lowest                              |    Milestone:  2.3 (trunk)
Component:  Administration                      |      Version:  2.3        
 Severity:  trivial                             |   Resolution:             
 Keywords:  browsehappy browse_happy has-patch  |  
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Changes (by rob1n):

  * status:  closed => reopened
  * resolution:  wontfix =>
  * milestone:  => 2.3 (trunk)

Comment:

 You know, I opened up my wp-svn folder today and saw Mark's commit
 message, and thought "sweet, it FINALLY got through." Then I went two
 commit messages later, and I found that he had reverted it per Matt's
 request. Now, Matt has closed this ticket as wontfix, despite the fact
 that Browse Happy's website is '''outdated''', and the majority of
 community responses have been in favor of axing the Browse Happy, well,
 advertisement that is currently in WordPress.

 Let's start out with the argument that "WordPress is not meant to be
 neutral software, or when we started our themes [we] would have used
 tables instead of CSS." This is complete BS. Using CSS instead of tables
 is not being non-neutral. It's merely respecting standards and not using
 tables for what their semantic uses are. It doesn't advertise a website
 that is outdated and supports a campaign that is largely successful, and
 dying down -- I for one have been very surprised and pleased by the amount
 of people that are aware of and use Firefox, especially in my educational
 environment.

 I'm reopening this ticket because I believe that it should be up to the
 community, not a single voice in a crowd, whether or not this form of
 subliminal "advertising" should remain in the core, especially when the
 site is not current and not affiliated with WordPress apart from the fact
 that it shares one person and one company.

 Sure, put it on WordPress.com -- that's not a community decision. But when
 people have voiced their opinions, and looking through the comments, it's
 almost exclusively for the removal of the Browse Happy logo, and just
 shutting this all down with one click and a paragraph, I won't stand for
 that.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4254#comment:34>
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