Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 February 2002 22:40, H.McM wrote:
>
>>>But in the mean time you should be petitioning your bank to use a
>>>standards-compliant browser (Opera and Mozilla being the 2 most
>>>standards-compliat browsers available), so that by 9.0 we can dump NS4.
>>>
>
>>This will happen about the same time that the devil starts skiing to work
>>and can look up and see pigs flying overhead.
>>
>
> Well... one of my machine rooms has a flying-pig mobile hanging in it. Does
> that count? (-:
>
I think you will have to wait for snow to come to Oz, get some skis, and
get buy some horns, your "down under" enough to qualify for the rest
then ...
>
>>I have written to both my banks (politely) about this issue and have in
>>both instances received a canned reply saying they only support windows and
>>ie/netscape because of the advanced security features particular to those
>>browsers on that platform.
>>
>
I guess they consider IE5 with 40 or 56bit encryption more secure than
Moz/Konq/Galeon etc with 128bit? "Because it's Microsoft, it must be
better (just like our highly secure IIS web servers)"
> Maybe you can ask them to please stop top-posting their email replies at the
> same time? (-:
>
>
>>This of course illustrates precisely how little
>>they know about anything except charging bank fees.
In which case, the only way to get them to see the light is if enough
customers threaten to stop paying fees to them, but to another bank that
doesn't dictate what software they must use.
Buchan
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