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Date:      Mon, 26 Dec 2005 05:28:13 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD Question's.
Message-ID:  <200512260528.14110.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051225221653.GA28062@lothlorien.nagual.st>
References:  <20051224225721.17983.qmail@web33307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200512241801.28350.kstewart@owt.com> <20051225221653.GA28062@lothlorien.nagual.st>

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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=20
sites I have encountered that demand IE are online banking. They seem=20
to only understand how to let you login securely using IE.

There are some sites such as Tyco that only work with Mozilla style=20
browsers. It depends on the push techology built into Mozilla style=20
browsers. You can see what the Navy Observatory time is but the=20
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=20
that browser before you can use their services. The 80/20 rule probably=20
applies because the banks can program for IE and get 85% of the people=20
without trippling their web development costs.

Kent

>
> imho: sites designed for 'iexplorer only' should be banned ;-)

=2D-=20
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

"Nunca te acostar=E1s sin saber una cosa m=E1s"
http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html



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