Have you guys considered selling Firefox bumper stickers?

How about Firefox pens or pencils? I whipped up some of my own Firefox pencils using Inkhead.com and people seem quite enthusiastic about them.

I see the books are gone. Perhaps eventually we will see some nice fresh ones for Firefox 3?

1- “Please don’t hurt the web, use open standards”
should not be identified with the mascot - sort of - of a single browser from a single browser manufacturer. The whole idea of web standards is exactly above browser manufacturer because web standards do not target or specify a single browser, and not even a single medium.

developer.mozilla.org does not have the monopoly of web standards knowledge and is certainly not the ideal place to claim web standards compliance. The last time I edited a webpage at MDC, I was notified by email to stop using true and genuine markup code such as <p> and </p> and to just instead use the wiki code… and I was editing the webpage “Using web standards in your web pages” hosted at MDC! Totally unbelievable!

2- Mozilla.org has not been active in the Tech Evangelism department for years now: no one can seriously claim otherwise.

Creating a T-shirt of this type won’t change an iota for millions of webpages which do not render as expected by their authors. Making more senseless back-end efforts into supporting MSIE implementation bugs - that’s right, MSIE implementation bugs - will not solve any problem, will not help anyone and will not improve the web. So, on one hand, some people can wear a T-Shirt about protecting, caring about web standards and, at the same time, use a browser that is becoming more and more IE-bugward-convenient, therefore removing any real need to follow and comply with W3C web standards. Blatant contradiction and a major one.

3- “Please don’t hurt the web, use open standards”
should not be referring to mistreated animal, animal cruelty, wildlife animal trembling in fear, anxiety, stress, fearing for his life, sitting on a melted/melting artic pole, etc.. I totally and unequivocally disagree with the use of that image: it sends a wrong message. It misuses the image of animal cruelty to convey badly battered markup code, hacks of all sorts in webpages, etc.. There is a huge difference between the 2.
Same thing with promoting a browser with a woman in a sexy outfit or with obvious sex-appeal: it should not be acceptable advertisement.
If you’re selling a web concept, a web browser or a web [development] organization, you should not be “selling” or conveying pity, sex or anything of the sort.

4- The very first place where web standards have been truly mistreated is in store.mozilla.org. Period.

Bug 305106 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305106
and bug 326708 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326708
are where efforts should be put and not onto selling a better T-shirt that webstandards.org or the W3C or that the SPCA or WWF (or animal defense groups) should be selling. Whoever is responsible for such decision truly misunderstand the real issues involved here and the communication of these.

“Mozilla offers the best implementations of Internet standards.” Yes, right, … except in its own store selling T-shirt about not hurting the web and using web standards that are repeatedly ignored in broad day light in its own webpages.

John, remove that T-shirt from the store and fix store.mozilla.org and related bugs.

Gérard Talbot