On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 01:26, ToddAndMargo via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2020-04-18 20:59, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 4/18/20 7:18 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>> Because Brave is not part of Fedora, although it should
>> be, especially with Firefox working on fewer and fewer
>> websites. Firefox is dying and that is really sad. I have been
>
> I haven't noticed this, but if so, it's because Google nearly has a
> monopoly now and they're doing the embrace and extend of the web.
With MS Edge Beta using Google's engine, public web sites have
good reason to abandon designs that depend on Explorer, but
many internal corporate sites still require Explorer.
It has been driving me crazy. The last site to bork
was Intel's sales contact page. Can't send the message
after filling out their forms
Intel's sales and support web sites were horrible when I was
using their compilers. Fortunately I could develop using GNU
compilers and then make a few changes (and the odd bug
report) to get performance benefits from Intel's compilers.
Those benefits are now largely irrelevant -- CPU improvements
mean the workloads have become I/O bound.
Large enterprises (such as my former employer) have all sorts of
legacy tools that only work on MS Explorer. In my case a massive
redesign of the pay system should have been the start of a move
to modern, platform independent, designs. The new pay system
was supposed to reduce the number of staff (needed to do manual
workarounds for limitations/bugs of the legacy system), but came
with a new set of limitations/bugs that needed even more staff and
many cases of incorrect pay. I suspect this experience delayed
replacement of other problematic legacy systems.
People are going to continue being hurt, even killed (Boeing) by
mismanaged IT in large organizations. When I consider investing
in a company I look at their web sites, participation of their IT
people in standards organizations and conferences, etc.
George N. White III
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