> I'm a little ticked. Westlaw.com is my online legal
> research tool. I use Linux and Netscape. They are
> revamping there website, but the site will only be
> accessible from a Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT platform using
> the latest IE or Netscape on that platform.
hmm... so is this a "will be" or an "is", I'd recommend a wait and see if
you haven't actually experienced problems with it yet. they may not know
what they're talking about, especially in light of the fact that they
obviously haven't actually tested it with Linux/Netscape.
> It won't even work on Mac versions of the browsers.
>
> When asked about Netscape for Linux, the tech people dont
> know what you're talking about. If you say unix, then a few
> more neurons start firing. So, when asked why the new site
> won't work with all java-enabled browsers, the idgit on the
> phone says matter-of-factly that "yeah, the mac versions
> don't have all the java features we need" or something like
> that.
>
> Question: I THOT JAVA WAS SPOSE TO BE PLATFORM
> INDEPENDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AM I MISSING
> SOMETHING?
That was Java's dream, and in fact was Java's promise. It is not,
however, a perfect reality. I don't have any examples of how or when it
doesn't work, I'm basing this purely on opinion and heresay.
I'd take it with a grain of salt and ask to actually test it. Of course,
if they are building in tests for the particular agent strings, they've
contrived it to be windows specific (you can configure a proxy such as
squid to send the string you want, I think).
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