Fernando Cassia wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:57 PM, David Brown > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > There are *very* few sites left that require IE - the difference between > different versions of IE is so big that it is extremely difficult to > make a website that works with both IE6 and IE7 and yet fails to work > with Webkit, Firefox and Opera. (Opera is particularly good for > imitating IE to fool websites - so much so that most website counters > miscount Opera users as IE users.) The only common exception is > corporate websites that use ActiveX. > > > Not my experience. Argentina's tax office for instance has one section > (not the whole site) coded in such a way that when you click on a menu > option, it opens a pop-up window, which appears as "blank" (in its > title bar) then somehow automagically sends the destination URL to that > "child" pop-up window. Well, that works on IE, but not on Mozilla based > browser, and not on Opera. It doesn't matter if you fake the > user-agent, it just doesn't work (on non-IE browser, it opens the pop-up > window, but stays with "Blank" in its title bar, the destination content > URL never loads. >
I said there are very few sites that need IE - there still are some that are unavoidable for many people. Personally, I haven't had to use IE for anything other than testing for many years. But as I said, it's safe to use IE for specific sites - it's general browsing (where you might bump into a "bad" site) that is risky. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
