On Friday 24 January 2003 13:55, Ely Levy wrote:
> latly universaties went to use britanica's high learning system,
> this system doesn't work with any other client rather than ie
> and since it's about to be used as the main school system
> it would limit the use of linux in universaties desktop and in
> students home.
> ie: here in huji's cs we don't even have windows machines for students
> which already starting to create problems.
> and I think less unix lover universaties and department might reconcider
> install linux or anything else beside windows, which is preety sad
> especialy now when with open office lyx and wine solved a lot of the
> barriers people had with using linux.
>
> I see 2 ways of action
>
> 1) Finding a fs replacement to the high learning system.
> 2) Convince britanica to support non ie clients

fs=??

> 1 - might be nice for universaties/schools which still didn't invest the
> money and man power for integrating high learning into the system so it
> might work for schools which check for this kind of system.
>
> 2 - sounds like a good solution but I think that high learning uses
> activeX stuff in their webpage.(anyone can confirm for sure?)
> and I think it would be hard to make them give up on it in favor for
> something else. They also deal with big originaztions and not people,
> so they probebly be harder to pressure in the way of pettions.
>
> I think it's highly importent topic cause the way it looks this system
> might speard to the entire education system, which might create even
> bigger problem for anyone not using ie bigger problem than hebrew word
> docs did in the last few years rating non windows users as second class.

Well, I think you can try this:

The latest crossover plugin supports (limited support actually) ActiveX (it 
was released yesterday - so people who bought Crossover plugins, please 
upgrade to 1.2.0) so I think you can use Mozilla or Konqueror with it. If you 
want - I can check it for you (as long as you give me a URL to download/test 
this activeX). CodeWeavers can also be "hired" by you (if you have big number 
of clients) to make this ActiveX works.

Another solution - Crossover Office, you can download and install IE + 
ActiveX..

Thanks,
Hetz

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