** Reply to note from Richard Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 17 Oct 2002 21:45:48 +1000
> Actually it is against the law to force a consumer to use > products from another company when you have a perfectly good > product that does the job and meets international and local standards. > I think at one SLUG meeting 2 weeks 2 months ago someone mentioned that > in fact there are standards set by the Australian Gov for companies > who want to offer public documentation and services and infringing those > standards can leave you open to a hefty fine. > according to a school teacher mate of mine, next years' curriculum sp? includes such computer skills as *NOT* as 'wp', *but* 'MS Word', 'MS Excel', etc. > On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 18:25, John McQuillen wrote: > > > So St George, why don't you spend a little time and effort into, if not > > coding your app to work better with Linux browsers, perhaps a single > > page on your site with tips on getting Internet Banking to work in > > Linux, and let the users help themselves? As far as I am concerned, > > user-agent checking to limit access to users running Microsoft Windows > > and Internet Explorer should be against the law. yes, I agree. *but*, StG no longer does that, and, YES, StG _were doing that_ some 1 or 2 years ago. initially, there were *not* checking, then, they did, after a while, they dropped the user-agent check, I can access StG with non-windoze N461 Voytek Eymont SBT Information Systems Pty Ltd http://www.sbt.net.au/links/ phone +61-2 9310-1144 fax +61-2 9310-1118 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
