Colin Guthrie wrote:
Micah Gersten wrote:
In the Microsoft world, you only support the latest couple of OSs, so
IE7 won't run on Win2k.
What about FF, Opera, Chrome, Safari? Do *any* of those work? If not,
then it wouldn't take long to get one of them working if IE had a sunset
date in it. Then you'd see how quickly MS responded with making IEx work
on their older OSes.... (and simply recompiling IE6 with a newer sunset
date should not be allowed!) I'm not sure how you would police it, but
there should be a badge of honour associated with the system in some
way, probably overseen by W3C.
The problem here is the sales job M$ does on the councils when providing their
site licences. CERTAINLY when ever I demo new facilities I don't use IE - in
fact I have even STRIPPED IE from most machines here, but have a couple of
machines that don't matter if IE leaks ;) IE7 does not run on W2k so M$ want
money to upgrade to - Vista nowadays - so it's not going to happen any time soon.
It would be nice if we could convince IT departments that there ARE other
sources of software than M$, and I *AM* now slipping Linux servers into sites
where only Windows machines were acceptable a couple of years ago. I suspect
that with the current Linux distributions supplying OpenOffice and Firefox out
of the box, then a few more IT departments will be moving that way very soon... :)
Jochem - You not had the problem of M$ changing default font sizes in
different versions of windows? IT departments have enough problems with
INSTALLING an upgrade without asking them to CHANGE the font size as well :)
The complaint from THIS site was that they could not log out because the
'logout' button was hidden - selecting a size smaller font on the browser
fixes the problem, but we have to add a scroll bar to the menu because "They
can't change from the default settings" :(
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