On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 04:19, Kevin Keating II wrote: > > Rluggers, > > > > Not too long ago, I got an e-mail from the UNR System Admin list saying > > that there was a "new policy" in regards to what browsers the University > > would support. Curious to see what the college I hold at least one > > degree from, and may one day contribute money to, would standardize > > their platform on, I read the policy -- and was appalled: > > > > What about the ECC lab? On one side it has Windows and on the other Red Hat. Mozilla > is on the Red Hat machines so they could not possibly apply the policy towards the > ECC computers...
The policy covers the unr.edu webpages only. So anything that is in the ECC lab is fine as far as setting up and maintaining web servers. The problem is that if students are using the Linux side, they may not be able to access the UNR.edu sites, because the UNR.edu sites would contain IE and Safari specific tags (or just poor markups or weird plugins). I have ran into this problem first hand. An additional problem is if a potential student, say in CS, wants to visit the UNR.edu web page in hopes of checking out what UNR has to offer. If the CS student is using a Open Source browser, then the student wouldn't be able to find out more information about UNR, and the University would lose yet another potential student (and an intelligent open source using one at that). Mark -- Mark C. Ballew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sublinear.net _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
