BSD Question's.

[Kent Stewart]

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 ;-)

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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