On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> Adam Kennedy wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > And we all whinge about it, on SLUG, on LINK.
> > > But what are we really asking? That tax depts and the like
> > > provide interfaces that are supported on every platform
> > > available? Th Web aside, there are often proprietary interfaces
> > > available that only run on Evilware, i.e. from banks.
> >
> > On the subject of banking, St George online banking runs fine in either NS
> > or IE in windows, but how does it go in linux?
>
> Two people I know (using Linux) must use an Evilware box
> to access St George. They are furious.
>
> One of them fires up NT on VMWare, the other goes hunting for
> a 'doze box.
>
> So much for open and uniform protocols. I guess the word 'standards'
> has taken on a whole new meaning on the commercial Internet. <sigh>
Yes but their old standalone windows program before worked wonderfully in
wine and way better than the java in netscape on linux which barely works.
Commonwealths windows program works fine in wine as well and I use it
regulary in wine
I dread their browser interface coming this month!
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