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But not so nice if you're a paying user (via the license fee) and upgrading means a new OS or computer. I think their mandate is to work for their paying users
by akronim 17y ago
But not so nice if you're a paying user (via the license fee) and upgrading means a new OS or computer. I think their mandate is to work for their paying users, ahead of helping web developers.
- biaxident 17y agoBut the web is worldwide, how many readers of BBC news are from outside the UK? And not every UK citizen has to purchase a license. They've recently been trying to encourage everyone to make the switch to digitial TVs. I'm sure it's a lot easier to get people to upgrade their browser than buy a new television.
- dandean 17y agoThe BBC has a specific mandate to the British people. If they are not serving them then they are not doing their job.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoWe're talking mainly bells and whistles (progressive enhancement) via Glow not basic access to data. That said BBC produce a lot of content for the web that not everyone can get (people don't all have computers), several digital radio channels (not everyone has digi-radio), several digi-TV channels (a lot can't even get the signal, many don't have the hardware). So the BBC aren't worried about large scale access issues, why worry so much about obsolete browsers?