10 Mar
2004
10 Mar
'04
5:39 a.m.
On 9 Mar 2004, Venkatesh (Venky) Hariharan wrote:
* Getting Internet Explorer working (natively?) on Linux (This will be of particular help in increasing the penetration of Linux in banks since many banking applications, though browser based, are optimized to work on Linux)
I think you really don't want this to happen. IE really messes up the standards. By making IE work on all machines, you'll just encourage people to make IE only sites. We should really be looking at porting these applications to work on standards compliant browsers.
Philip
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