On a similar note, the latest version of a 'web-based' application that my school uses for trouble-ticket tracking (RightNow) will not work with any non-IE browsers. A few people have complained, and I hope they do something about it. I hate having to use two machines, VMWare, rdesktop, or the like to be able to use a 'web-based' application.
Jeremy > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeronimo Pellegrini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 4:12 PM > To: Walter Reed > Cc: Bruce; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape? > > > Let me say something here... > > > Many sites? Interesting. I have only found one site lately > that does not work > > with galeon / mozilla, and it uses flash heavily. > > > > Could you elaborate on what you mean by "do not work?" Examples? > > Two banks on which I have accounts, for example... One of > them will only > allow IE or Netscape 4.*, and the other just won't work with > Gecko (the > browser just dies after a certain applet is used). > > Besides the banks, there are some government agencies in my > country that > will only support Netscape 4 (*when* they don't require > Explorer at all) > > > First, contact the webmaster for these sites. They are > HORRIBLY broken if they > > don't support mozilla at this stage. > > Hm, ever tried to contact a bank about that? I did. > > Bank #1 was quite nice, and they said they know about the problem, but > that because of the variety of Java VM implementations, they didn't > manage to solve the problem yet. And they don't know when they will. > > Bank #2 just doesn't care. > > > It's a w3c compliance thing. I find that > > when these sites are publicized, the Linux community gets > active and the sites > > get fixed pretty quick. > > I've seen sites fixed quickly, and sites taht just don't answer (even > when quite some people complain). > > > Second, try altering the useragent in prefs.js. Try > claiming that you are IE or > > old Netscape. > > My Mozilla crashes anyway in the first bank (which is the one > I really use) > :-(. I'll try with the second. > > > Sometimes I just remove the OS specific info which they don't > > need anyway and things work. If it STILL doesn't work, then > indeed the site is > > COMPLETELY broken and the webmaster should definitely be > flamed. Well, a little > > education helps too. > > I agree it's broken, but the problem is that the webmasters > don't agree > (because it works for most users -- who use IE). > > J. > > -- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]