Well, at least Nick got a reply. I complained and got nothing! David Stringer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
At 17:45 17/08/02 +1200, Nick Elder wrote: > >Hi, > I got an email from my old ISP last week which told me of a new site giving away email addresses and 2megs of web/file space: > >>So, sign up now for this fantastic FREE account, and take advantage of this convenient online account - http://www.thegooey.com/ From Your Ihug team. > >But when I tried to access it with my favorite operating system it came up with a window saying I had to use the browser, that comes with my least favourite operating system. Yet I couldn't help noticing that the 'thegooey.com' web page had a .php suffix. hmmm > >So after trying all my linux browsers including Opera set to to impersonate IE I managed to get as far as the feedback form at least. Of which I filled in with the following: > >>I now use linux at home and at my business. We are currently setting up a network that will consist of eight linux terminals. Its a bit of a shame that your web site interface has to use internet explorer! I wonder also how Macintosh users are going to get on at your site seeing as they wont have MS internet explorer either! >> >> Nick Elder > >I got a reply 5 days later saying: > >>Nick, > >>TheGooey is built/runs on Linux, Apache and PHP. However when we started developing only IE5.5 supported the advanced user interface features we had in theGooey. We are waiting for v7.0 of Netscape and Mozilla is now just about up to spec, however that requires a major rewrite that we will do for V2.0 of theGooey. >> >>Keep posted. > >>Regards Grant >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Well fellow CLUG list members, I am left confused. Does Apache or PHP have a 'advanced user interface' that blocks linux browsers? (BTW I am currently running 'drake 8.2) > >Nick Elder > > >
