BSD Question's.

[Gerard Seibert]

On Monday, December 26, 2005 8:28:13 AM
Kent Stewart <kstewart at owt.com>
Subject: Re: BSD Question's.
Wrote these words of wisdom:

> On Sunday 25 December 2005 02:16 pm, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> > On 24 Dec Kent Stewart wrote:
> > > There is also the problem that some sites are designed to work with
> > > Internet Explorer. You can try to visit with firefox but that
> > > doesn't always work even with firefox on XP.
> >
> > NO site should be designed to work with IExplorer. I know it's done,
> > but it should not! Why do we have W3C? If we could all just do things
> > "by the book" the internet would be a much nicer place to visit.
> >
> > People who design for IExplorer are bad! They have microsoft in mind
> > and _not_ the visitors. I hate it when choice gets violated! It
> > should be called a crime against freedom.
> 
> I have seen some that don't work properly except with IE but the only 
> sites I have encountered that demand IE are online banking. They seem 
> to only understand how to let you login securely using IE.
> 
> There are some sites such as Tyco that only work with Mozilla style 
> browsers. It depends on the push techology built into Mozilla style 
> browsers. You can see what the Navy Observatory time is but the 
> automated gif only works with the mozilla products. See
> http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what1.html
> 
> Each browser has some technology that they depend on and you have to use 
> that browser before you can use their services. The 80/20 rule probably 
> applies because the banks can program for IE and get 85% of the people 
> without trippling their web development costs.
> 
> Kent
> 
> >
> > imho: sites designed for 'iexplorer only' should be banned ;-)
> 
> -- 
> Kent Stewart
> Richland, WA


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On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied:

I belong to a HS Officials Association. The entire BOCES site, where I
can confirm assignments, etc.,  is written in VB. I can only use IE to
access that site.

I have spoken to the director of BOCES operations, and they informed me
that there was no way they were going to change the site. It cost them
many $thousands$ of dollars to have set up.

I do have to admit that it works flawlessly though.

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Gerard Seibert
gerard at seibercom.net