Makes you wonder because now OSX wont be supporting IE in future Apple
will be using
a modified version of Konqueror.
The problem with IE is its getting old and has some really nasty CSS
problems. Ive deployed
Mozilla 1.4.1 and Konqueror (in KDE 3.1.1) and I have yet to see a web
service thats
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 17:43, Shaun Oliver wrote:
can you not change the user agent information with mozilla as with lynx
as in the cat/text only browser
Welcome to the murky waters. Yes, the poor end user can start playing
silly user agent string games, this only works if the detection is based
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 10:16, Brad Kowalczyk wrote:
exactly. Why people still think they can use user agent strings to get
an accurate indication of the percentage market share for the different
browsers out there is beyond me. Unfortunately I think a lot of non
IE browsers are calling
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 21:42, Shaun Oliver wrote:
if she's using mozilla, there shouldn't be too much of a problem as
far as I am aware.
somebody correct me on this,
All it takes is some javascript-monkey to include some OS/Browser
detection and you're (she is) heading for murky waters.
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003, Brad Kowalczyk wrote:
exactly. Why people still think they can use user agent strings to get
an accurate indication of the percentage market share for the
different browsers out there is beyond me. Unfortunately I think a lot
of non IE browsers are calling themselves IE.
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:01, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Angus Lees
I was considering packaging an iexplore installer for Debian yesterday.
(download the freely available ie*.exe archive on package install and set
it up under a wine-using shell wrapper)
Oooh, you should get in touch
*SNIP*
All it takes is some javascript-monkey to include some OS/Browser
detection and you're (she is) heading for murky waters.
hm.
can you not change the user agent information with mozilla as with lynx
as in the cat/text only browser
sorry for my referring to lynx as the cat but, given
if she's using mozilla, there shouldn't be too much of a problem as
far as I am aware.
somebody correct me on this,
Thus spake Geoffrey Robertson,
My wife does some teaching out at USW. They have receintly told her
that they will no longer be issueing paper pay slips. They will be
online and
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 10:30 pm, Richard Neal wrote:
The company Im working for is doing some work for a large global
finance company (over 14,000 staff).I was talking to one of the tech
14,000??? did u say 14,000?? eeerrr... 'ang on .. lemme figure that out ..
ave MS license x no of
I've just done some research (hehehe) and the person responsible at
UWS may be reached (politely) at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jon
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The thing is, if you accept their IE5 `requirement' now, you won't have
much of a say when they replace all their web forms with ActiveX controls.
Fight, now (politely).
Mike
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If its IE5 they want, I am sure a recent build of phoenix with the java and
flash plugins would conform to all the IE5 buggy standards.
I doubt they bother enforcing it in the web pages, they are just trying to
clear out the v4 neanderthals
dave
- Original Message -
From: Geoffrey
Geoffrey Robertson said:
My wife does some teaching out at USW. They have receintly told her
that they will no longer be issueing paper pay slips. They will be
online and she will be required to use IE5 to read them. She has
told them that she uses Linux and is waiting for them to get back
-= Geoffrey Robertson said:
-= My wife does some teaching out at USW. They have
-= receintly told her
-= that they will no longer be issueing paper pay slips.
-= They will be
-= online and she will be required to use IE5 to read
-= them. She has
-= told them that she uses Linux and is
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Jon Biddell wrote:
-= Geoffrey Robertson said:
-= My wife does some teaching out at USW. They have
-= receintly told her
-= that they will no longer be issueing paper pay slips.
-= They will be
-= online and she will be required to use IE5 to read
-= them. She
-= soapbox
-= Surely the more interesting aspect is being forced to pay a
-= M$ tax simply to be on someones payroll?
-=
-= If Mrs.Robertson is the sort of person who is willing to be
-= the dog at this bone, we could even establish some sort of
-= legal precedent. Like all of us, I'm sick of
PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2003 9:42 AM
To: Jon Biddell
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SLUG] UWS IE5 Policy
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Jon Biddell wrote:
-= Geoffrey Robertson said:
-= My wife does some teaching out at USW. They have
-= receintly
quote who=Angus Lees
I was considering packaging an iexplore installer for Debian yesterday.
(download the freely available ie*.exe archive on package install and set
it up under a wine-using shell wrapper)
Oooh, you should get in touch with James Gregory, who was doing similar
stuff for
Doesn't that violate the whole, debian is free software only thing?
Is not that one of the things that makes debian good?
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:01, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Angus Lees
I was considering packaging an iexplore installer for Debian yesterday.
(download the freely
quote who=DE LUCA Ben
Doesn't that violate the whole, debian is free software only thing?
If something like this were even added to Debian, it would be added to
non-free (or perhaps contrib, given that the package itself doesn't actually
contain non-free software, but that's another flamewar).
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