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Before you totally abandon IE, you should know that there are
quite a few web sites out there that will only run properly on
IE.
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Seconded. My online banking being one of them. Opera is good but you
still need IE for all those idiot sites.


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Conor

"The vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world.
And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice."
- George Bush
 
I checked your headers
you're not using Opera
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I use Opera as my browser. I use Microplanet GRavity for news as Operas
M2 sucks.


--
Conor

"The vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world.
And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice."
- George Bush
 
Wrong. _You_ need it. Others don't need idiot sites.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg
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For all the hype about online banking having security holes. I think they
take security very serious. Every bank that provides online banking has
Internet Explorer as a 'recognised' browser for internet banking.

Going by this, banks would seem to consider IE's security to be 'OK'

Clive
 
Clive said:
For all the hype about online banking having security holes. I think they
take security very serious. Every bank that provides online banking has
Internet Explorer as a 'recognised' browser for internet banking.

Going by this, banks would seem to consider IE's security to be 'OK'

Clive
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Ohh! Now you're scaring me.

....It'll now be even more years until I trust online banking.
 
For all the hype about online banking having security holes. I think they
take security very serious. Every bank that provides online banking has
Internet Explorer as a 'recognised' browser for internet banking.
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My bank has no problem with Mozilla or Netscape. They don't require
ActiveX or Java.
Going by this, banks would seem to consider IE's security to be 'OK'
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"They" simply accommodate the most common browser visiting their site.

I think if people visiting the bank site insist on using another
browser (not IE) and complain fiercely to the bank when the site
doesn't function properly, the bank then *must* address the needs of
those customers and get the site properly coded for cross
platform/browser compatibility. They can afford that expense on behalf
of their customers, don't you think?

Sites that dictate what browser you need to use, ought to be left
alone.
 
For all the hype about online banking having security holes. I think they
take security very serious. Every bank that provides online banking has
Internet Explorer as a 'recognised' browser for internet banking.
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Any halfway decent and intelligent one would allow other browsers. Any
site, service, or software which requires IE or IE only isn't worth
bothering with.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
For all the hype about online banking having security holes. I think they
take security very serious. Every bank that provides online banking has
Internet Explorer as a 'recognised' browser for internet banking.

Going by this, banks would seem to consider IE's security to be 'OK'
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Actually, the client side has nothing to do with Security of the Banking
site. The servers and their programming are secure, it's the end-users
computer and browser that may be in questions.

MS made it so damn easy to provide sites with custom and rich
functionality for people using IE. Not only that, but the other browsers
have (and had) to many quirks that required custom programming in order
to make the site work with them - I remember having to code for 4
different browsers in order to get tables to work correctly :)
 
Illogical and false conclusion, Mr. Troll.
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Well Art - I'm not a troll and I use three different browsers when I
test code, but many sites cater to the common platform of their
customers. Most customers have IE. Coding a site to work with all
browsers is a PITA, and while it would be nice if they all coded to some
non-MS standard, it's just not going to happen.
 
Leythos wrote:
[snip]
Well Art - I'm not a troll and I use three different browsers when I
test code, but many sites cater to the common platform of their
customers. Most customers have IE. Coding a site to work with all
browsers is a PITA, and while it would be nice if they all coded to some
non-MS standard, it's just not going to happen.
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while i'll grant you that most users probably do have IE, IE is not a
standard for the web...

anyone who wants to write standards compliant pages should visit
http://www.w3c.org and make use of the information and tools available
there for that purpose...

and for the record, all browsers should be able to handle standards
compliant web sites equally well (if they don't then the browsers
themselves are not complying with the standards)...
 
Leythos wrote:
[snip]
Well Art - I'm not a troll and I use three different browsers when I
test code, but many sites cater to the common platform of their
customers. Most customers have IE. Coding a site to work with all
browsers is a PITA, and while it would be nice if they all coded to some
non-MS standard, it's just not going to happen.
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while i'll grant you that most users probably do have IE, IE is not a
standard for the web...

anyone who wants to write standards compliant pages should visit
http://www.w3c.org and make use of the information and tools available
there for that purpose...

and for the record, all browsers should be able to handle standards
compliant web sites equally well (if they don't then the browsers
themselves are not complying with the standards)...
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Yea, I completely agree that everything should be coded to the w3c
standard, but in real life it just doesn't happen. When all browsers
present the same image on screen for the same HTML, then we may start
getting somewhere.
 
Well Art - I'm not a troll and I use three different browsers when I
test code, but many sites cater to the common platform of their
customers. Most customers have IE. Coding a site to work with all
browsers is a PITA, and while it would be nice if they all coded to some
non-MS standard, it's just not going to happen.
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Then they won't get my business. You see? It's very simple.

I haven't used IE since the Win 3.1 days. My mutual fund allows for
Mozilla and the other Moz based browsers I've tried. And that's all I
care about. I have no interest in on-line banking.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
online.com:

And, I'm planning also to replace my Win2K with Linux.
BTW, I'm "Microsoft Certified System Egineer" :-), so I
really know of what I'm talking of... :-)
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you better read up on linux a bit more before you start switching all your
friends & family over, big guy. you gonna be on the phone supporting these
people 24 hours a day.

btw, i am an mcse, i also love linux & GNU concept, i also know what i am
talking about.

the world at large is not ready for linux yet. don't listen to ubergeeks.
an ubergeek will always try to force a square peg into a circular hole
just because he refuses to use a circular peg.

p.s., good luck playing the latest 3dfx and 3d sound games on you linux
box.
 
I haven't used IE since the Win 3.1 days. My mutual fund allows for
Mozilla and the other Moz based browsers I've tried. And that's all I
care about. I have no interest in on-line banking.
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I use Mozilla on Bank of America's site and it works fine.

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