And now I've been told there are a few pages/apps in IBM that don't work with IE anymore but work fine with FF.. very nice for an MS-unenthusiast to hear :-) I've used Linux as my workstation in IBM since 2006 or so and never looked back..
Scott Rohling On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Marian Gasparovic <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been using FF in IBM (on Windows XP) since 2004 as my default > browser. It happens about once in two weeks I have to use IE because some > specific pages don't work well with FF. It was not internally supported for > some time, so it was not possible to complain. Since it became supported, > incompatible pages inside IBM were greatly reduced. > > =================== > Marian Gasparovic > =================== > "The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest > possibility of crossing my mind." > > > --- On Thu, 7/1/10, John Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: John Campbell <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: FW: CNET: IBM names Firefox its default browser > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 7:12 PM > > McKown, John wrote: > > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20009387-264.html > > > > When I was an IBMer I was one of those using the Linux > > "Client For > > E-Business" build (IMHO very well assembled on top of RHEL4 > > WS) which, > > given the CIO's decree that all internal web-based > > applications MUST > > be "Browser Agnostic" (unlike my experiences as Verizon and > > elsewhere) > > it made the use of Firefox to be "no problem". > > > > Firefox is common to at least *three* platforms-- > > Windows, Linux and > > MacOS X-- so this actually cuts costs in terms of Quality > > Assurance > > when a web application is being rolled out. > > (Actually, it has been a > > while, but I seem to recall seeing a Firefox build for AIX, > > too.) > > > > -soup > > > > -- > > John R. Campbell > > Speaker to Machines > > souperb at gmail dot com > > MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly > > than to fix Windows > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access > > instructions, > > send email to [email protected] > > with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
