Easwar Hariharan wrote:
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.
Probably because,then the user won't care,since he can do his work and not care about standards,openness or anything.
People who have their online banking/share-trading accounts working since many years cannot be expected to move to FOSS and close those accounts or stop trading simply due to standards compliance. As technical people we have to try to provide the middle path which allows them to make the switch to FOSS without undergoing a castration.
If they don't work,he *might* ,at the minimum,use Firefox's Report Broken Website dialog to inform Mozilla,and we can thus reduce the number of IE-only sites out there.