On 20 Nov 2009 at 12:25, paul chinnery wrote: > It's been my experience that FF will just update itself when it's > necessary.
Only true if the user has local admin rights, or you're using PortableFirefox "installed" where the user has write-rights. > I wish I could roll it out to my users but some software just won't work > with FF. (Yes, I know, I could use the IETab add-on but then you have to > train the users to load the page using that add-on.) [rant] Just ran into a seriously crappy website for a home-user client that flat out does not work in anything but Internet Explorer. Turns out the site was built using MS Word as the HTML editor. Word spews out VML and VML is only supported by MS Office and Internet Explorer. No version of Firefox from 2.x to 3.5.5 supports it, Google Chrome doesn't support it and I don't care enough to check Safari ;-). I doubt it the webmaster will care (It's http://www.tfoa.net/, if *_you_* care). Looking at the code I see that the links in the VML section are clickable, surrounded by <!--[if gte vml 1]>...<![endif]--> while the non-VML- supporting browsers get shown @#...@#$%@^...@$ UNCLICKABLE IMGs <![if !vml]><img ... alt="Text Box: Online Official Evaluations: Click here"...>...<![endif]> I'd like to shoot the authors of Word for allowing this HTML to escape from their program -- why isn't the @#...@#$% IMG clickable? OTGH I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that MS products create HTML that only works in MS browsers -- they've been pulling crap like this since "It ain't done until Lotus 1-2-3 won't run" and Windows for Workgroups 3.11, which killed LANtastic. [/rant] Angus -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-895-3270 ~! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
