Nabs,
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000, at 05:03 PM, you wrote:
>
> Hi folks.
>
> Has anyone in the UK been able to sign up to LineOne's new free internet
> service?
>
> It is a 2-step process; first you sign up with LineOne to become your
> ISP. You then "register" your interest in having free internet. Once
> they have processed your request (this took about 5 days), they email
> you back instructing you to go to a site for a second registration, this
> time for your free internet ID.
>
---- snip ----
> I was able to do the first registration without any problems, and am now
> a LineOne customer. However, when I received the confirmation email after
> a few days, I was unable to register on the second site for my free
> internet. The site seems to make use of Java.
>
> Although I sent several emails to their tech. support, the best they
> could say was "switch on your JIT compiler option in your copy of
> Internet Explorer", even though I had told them I did not have Java, or
> IE. They insist it is a Java process, even though the source seems to
> indicate a combination of JS and CSS.
---- snip ----
> Has anyone been able to find a way around this using V?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Nabs.
>
All I can say is, "Welcome to the 'World of the Morons.'" You have
bumped into one of the many sites that set everything up using the MS
tools and without giving any of it a second thought. When you do this,
you end up with coding that is embedded in the site which, not only uses
JAVA, but uses a version of XML which can only be acknowledged by MS IE.
Is there a way around this? Well, if you mean short of including that ISP
in a class action suit against MS or convincing those who run tnat ISP,
that, if they do not start being reasonable, you will find a way to destroy
them? No. The only thing in your favor is that, since V can spoof IE
v.5.0, you can, at least get as far as you did. You might not have been
able to get that far if you used AWeb since it can only spoof IE 4.0.
It is situations like this that force us Amigans to have access to IBM
clones and MS windowing (inclusive of I.E.). I hate this aspect, but
until people start to use reasoning instead of laziness and/or greed,
things like this will continue.
Julian.
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