bogi wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oIot3Qxu_U&mode=related&search=
I am not a big "Tuber" by I did take a look at some of the ads. I particularly like the one with the different browsers with the faces, the Global warming one, and the IE 7 Baby ad (only males will appreciate that one). But to keep this is at least semi-on-topic I wanted to share an incident from work regarding IE 7 vs Firefox. According to the browser requirements for our site, our web app only "officially" supports IE 5.0 and up & Netscape on Windows machine. In talking with our developers though, they have stated that they also support firefox as well...which is awsome. I should say that I have also got the site working on OS 9 & 10 and most importantly Linux, which has helped us out considerably. So heres the poop. Recently we started getting complaints from our users (very tech-newbie, non-computer savvy, older, resistant to change...you get the idea) about the certificate on our site being revoked. Now being the SysAdmin I registered the certificate myself and I can gaurentee that that is not the case. Well after doing some digging the only commonality I could find was that these users were using IE 7. Now keep in mind that IE 7 is still beta and is not currently available (as far as I know) through update or any other way other than specifically downloading which none of these users remembers doing. Becasue teh SSL is so important to ur site, having the cert "revoked" automatically blocks them from the site. IE 7 did not have any indicators (that the users could find anyways) that the site was using SSL (the lock icon, etc.) and would not allow the cert to be installed in any of the tradiotional fashions. In the end I needed to disable the "Check for publishers cert "revocation" option under the security section of the advanced tab in internet options, then go into the page properties from the file menu and install the certifcate by clicking the button then going through the wizard to install it. Whew! Hardly simple and easy for the average user. You would think that a browser that is basically the same as it predecessors would allow the same functionality and if anything would get better with a newer version. But here you have what is supposedly to eventually someday...if it ever gets released...be the browser to revolutionize the net (MS-speak), that not only sneaks onto a computer but also cripples a core technology, that worked fairly simply in the previsouly versions. Argggghhhhh!!!! More phone calls to the help desk coming! :-P The good news in all of this that each version of Firefox that I have installed has worked flawlessly out of the box on WIndows boxes to access the site. The only thing I need to do was click one button once to install the cert and go on my merry way. FF on Linux requires one extension and no report of FF on Mac yet. Now I can't speak for the upcooming firefox 2 but I would imagine it would be just as seemless to use. Yes.. long winded post, but shows the difference between open and closed source technology development and the true motivations behind why software is developed in the first place. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
