On 6 Aug 2002, at 23:43, Ambassador Incursio wrote: > I usually avoid questioning someone's reasons for > doing something when they ask for help, but I am > sorry, I gotta ask it here: Why? Well, at my office, a number of our intranet apps (such as the system we all have to use to put in vacation requests and sick leave, our online service request system, and our online purchase req system) work only in IE. Blame that on staff programmers who like MS products, but also on the fact that they're too shorthanded to test and debug their web apps on multiple browser platforms. I just evaluated an online training vendor's product line. It doesn't work with NS6 or Mozilla, which they admit and state that they have no plans to fix. It claims to work with Netscape 4.7x, but I could never login using NS 4.79. It didn't even work with IE 5.5. It only worked with IE6. It uses the Windows Media Player and Shockwave for the multimedia part of the courses. Does WMP work under WINE? Is there a Linux version of Shockwave? Then there are sites that require ActiveX plugins. Finally, there are products (such as the web calendaring app my employer uses) that use archaic browser sniffing techniques and simply refuse to even *let* you try any browser platform version except the few that they accept. I'd much rather be using Linux at work than W98 and/or WindowsXP, but not quite yet. And the majority of our programming staff want to move to .NET and buy the whole MS thing completely. We're rolling out WindowsXP and MS OfficeXP as the organization's standard PC platform (the Mac users will get OS X as their machines are replaced with new ones). David gnome@hawaii.rr.com _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
