On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar < siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
even if you have a legal copy of windows, it is still illegal to install IE on linux. Please read the IE EULA.
Just a question, probably flamebait, so hiding behind a firewall ;)
Why can't Firefox/epiphany/konqueror/<insert your favourite FOS browser here>, instead of just not working on EI-only sites, work in a compatibility mode (i.e. support their lameness), while at the same time informing the user that the web designer is a lazy fool who doesn't really know his skill at all? BTW, I'm only talking about the IE way of doing javascript, not activex.
-- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.in -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
I think I have a solution to this problem. I'd like to call it
"Autogreasemonkey"
The two parts of the solution 1. Use greasemonkey and a bit of user-agent magic to get around the Website's flaws. 2. Create a Firefox plugin that automatically downloads "fixer" scripts when it detects you're browsing a blacklisted Website and apply that script providing seamless browser experience.
I don't know if this is possible, but it would surely hit home with the user.
Now someone needs to write Autogreasemonkey and a whole lot of workaround scripts (perhaps a community could write the last bit).
What say you? :-)