Ahhh... I see. A number of the links don't actually work (even though they look fine). If I render it with IETab it works, but not in native FF.
Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer ______________________________________________ Roland Schorr & Tower www.rolandschorr.com [email protected] Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bschorr > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 7:59 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Firefox for corporate use? > > I think it's the navigation links at the bottom of each page. > Everything else (including the nav links on the left) worked for me in both FF > and Chrome, but the bottom links only worked in IE. > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Ben Schorr <[email protected]> > wrote: > > What doesn't work for you on the TFOA.NET website? It looks fine to > > me in FF 3.5.5. > > > > > > > > Ben M. Schorr > > Chief Executive Officer > > ______________________________________________ > > Roland Schorr & Tower > > www.rolandschorr.com > > [email protected] > > > > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bschorr > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > 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/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
