At one time it was the browser that sent out an identification of its name. I
recall when Banks would only look at explorer, and not netscape. How many of
you recall trying a website with explorer, and then with firefox, and seeing
the explorer input fields being of one size, in one and different in the
other. By the way, even between FF and Explorer, and using FTP, explorer is a
weaker software. Back to the topic...
However, as Firefox arrived, banks also included Firefox as the video
rendering was different between broken explorer and "Follow the rules"
Firefox.
It may very well be that the interface code at the bank is legacy, and people
with Chrome, Safari, etc. (a few little known browsers, such as Debians
iceweasel are not accepted.
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Leslie
Mr. Leslie Satenstein
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>________________________________
>From: Nick Sklav <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Monday, September 5, 2011 11:27 PM
>Subject: Re: [MLUG] any banks support linux for their web sites?
>
>On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 21:27 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> > Btw, for anyone looking to switch, ING now has chequing accounts, with
>> > no fees.
>>
>> But do they explicitly support GNU/Linux?
>>
>>
>> Stefan
>> _______________________________________________
>
>Am I the only one who finds this thread somewhat pointless? I mean I am
>all for linux support if they made some custom app that was the only way
>to access your banking info online hell yeah I would need and want it.
>
>But in this day an age banks are using web technologies which to them
>means cross platform and the majority of them stick to the popular
>standards which Linux supports pretty much across the board. Now to look
>for a bank that expressly supports Linux is next to impossible in my
>opinion.
>
>The whole push for cross platform technologies is to exactly avoid
>singling out a demographic. But having worked at a bank for many years I
>can almost assure you that nobody is developing for linux desktops
>specifically, Maybe iphone Android and blackberry but that is where they
>draw the line, Till the next new must have mind share device comes out.
>
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