What doesn't work for you on the TFOA.NET website?  It looks fine to me
in FF 3.5.5.

 

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From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 6:58 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Firefox for corporate use?

 

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

 

 

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