Tom Piwowar >>Actually, I think Tom was saying that Garmin forcing you to >>use Active X is a Bad Thing. And I'd have to >>ag. . . agre. . . Ohh, I just can't say it.
> Forcing anyone to use IE is certainly a crime. I went one > step further to say that any company who can't figure out > how to do a job using open standards is advertising that > they have very poor engineering skills. Hence I would > expect to be otherwise not too hot. > I believe subsequent posts cleared Garmin of this offense, > but raised a new one. To register you had to be running an > administrative account. That is not quite as bad as > requiring IE, but certainly does not establish their > engineering chops. So instead of 0 stars they get 2 stars. Can IWork or iLife be installed as a limited user? Yes, I installed the Garmin program as admin and then switched to the limited user to do the actual registration. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Uninitialized pointers can get you in a heap of trouble! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
