Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 08:37:59 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Question's. Message-ID: <20051226083404.8C5A.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <200512260528.14110.kstewart@owt.com> References: <20051225221653.GA28062@lothlorien.nagual.st> <200512260528.14110.kstewart@owt.com>
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On Monday, December 26, 2005 8:28:13 AM Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: BSD Question's. Wrote these words of wisdom: > On Sunday 25 December 2005 02:16 pm, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > On 24 Dec Kent Stewart wrote: > > > There is also the problem that some sites are designed to work with > > > Internet Explorer. You can try to visit with firefox but that > > > doesn't always work even with firefox on XP. > > > > NO site should be designed to work with IExplorer. I know it's done, > > but it should not! Why do we have W3C? If we could all just do things > > "by the book" the internet would be a much nicer place to visit. > > > > People who design for IExplorer are bad! They have microsoft in mind > > and _not_ the visitors. I hate it when choice gets violated! It > > should be called a crime against freedom. > > I have seen some that don't work properly except with IE but the only > sites I have encountered that demand IE are online banking. They seem > to only understand how to let you login securely using IE. > > There are some sites such as Tyco that only work with Mozilla style > browsers. It depends on the push techology built into Mozilla style > browsers. You can see what the Navy Observatory time is but the > automated gif only works with the mozilla products. See > http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what1.html > > Each browser has some technology that they depend on and you have to use > that browser before you can use their services. The 80/20 rule probably > applies because the banks can program for IE and get 85% of the people > without trippling their web development costs. > > Kent > > > > > imho: sites designed for 'iexplorer only' should be banned ;-) > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA ***** REPLY SEPARATOR ***** On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: I belong to a HS Officials Association. The entire BOCES site, where I can confirm assignments, etc., is written in VB. I can only use IE to access that site. I have spoken to the director of BOCES operations, and they informed me that there was no way they were going to change the site. It cost them many $thousands$ of dollars to have set up. I do have to admit that it works flawlessly though. -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net
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