On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:16:38 +0800, Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 07:10:42AM +0800, eric pareja wrote: >> This is a rather late response to this thread and slightly askew. >> Instead of the back-end, which consumers won't really care that much >> about, what I am more concerned about regarding bank websites, >> particularly their online banking portals, is that most of them seem >> to -require- you to use a particulare web-browser on a particular OS. > > For whatever it's worth, I have successfully used and continue to use > two banking websites using Mozilla on Debian GNU/Linux: > > 1. HSBC (http://www.hsbc.com.ph) - you need to install the User Agent > Switcher and broadcast Microsoft Internet Explorer as your web browser, > though. With that workaround, it works flawlessly. Also works fine using > Safari on Mac OS X without any tweaks. > > 2. BPI (http://www.bpiexpressonline.com) - you need to use an > alternative URL to access the frames version, since the drop down menus > don't work on Mozilla or Safari. The alternative URL is > https://www.bpiexpressonline.com/direct_signinnie.htm. >
i count you as lucky. our company switched from BPI to Metrobank (they call it global initiative realignment crap) and Metrobank relies on an ActiveX component before they will let you into their secure portal. maybe one of these days i will try ie4linux if that will alleviate the pain caused by the stupidity on metrobank's part but for now i will just keep on doing my workaround: withdraw whatever is left in my paycheck and deposit it to my bpi account. once i was able to access the bpi forms using a vanilla firebird installations (yes, firebird since i think it was 0.9.2). the whole dropdown system was working but when i upgraded to the next version i had to revert to using the nie link. :( and metrobank atms are running on windows. laging blue screen un machine nila sa walkway malapit sa ayala museum. ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back" Anuerin G. Diaz Registered Linux User #246176 Friendly Linux Board @ http://mandrivausers.org/index.php http://capsule.ramfree17.org , when you absolutely have nothing else better to do _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
