novell shop recommends ie browser

[DenverD]

> The *best* way to effect this type of change is for customers to complain
> in volume. I can talk until I'm blue in the face, but if it's coming
> from customers, that has weight. So use the feedback links on the pages,
> and when you get e-mails suggesting you use IE, reply that you're a Linux
> user and IE isn't an option.

ok...i went to the site and got up to the point where it looked like my
credit card was going to be charged against if i clicked the next
"Continue"...

and, chickened out..
anyone know exactly where the must-have-IE-coding kicks in??

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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark

[Landratte]

Originally Posted by saahne

May be that the shop is outsourced to a company that handles online transactions. Whatever the case, big faux pas.

Here are the latest Firefox stats. Looks like they'll break 205 next month. That's a lot of potentially lost customers.

Depends on who is making the statistics. Take XiTi Monitor for example, and things look even more baffling.

[enderandrew]

Some people use alternative browsers like Firefox, Flock, Opera, Konqueror, etc. but spoof user-agents. Thusly, they throw off statistics and show more IE users than there actually are.

[DenverD]

which is the reason i always surf as firefox, and only change (add on =
User Agent Switcher) when i _must_ to sneak around the IE only barrier..

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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark

DenverD wrote:

> which is the reason i always surf as firefox, and only change (add on
> = User Agent Switcher) when i _must_ to sneak around the IE only
> barrier..
>
Yes I do the same. Its important not to hide the browsers, Mail
Clients, any product for that matter, behind "Agent Switching".

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Best Regards:
Baron.

[dragonbite]

IE 8 is supposed to be more Standards Compliant.

I had this issue when I was trying to get hooked up to my DSL and they wanted IE for registering. I finally got around it and I don't remember how but it was a royal pain!

[enderandrew]

Wine will run IE if you absolutely need it.

I tried the IE 8 beta. It is horribly, horribly slow. It makes IE 7 look fast. And the standards compliance is a joke. I tried the ACID2 test and got like a 37. IE 8 did feature many Flock-like features. You can select text and right click on it to post to a blog or whatever. However, it defaults to using Microsoft sites and services for everything (which isn't surprising).

Most of the time you can spoof the user agent, and make a page load that demands IE. However, if you need ActiveX, then you really need IE.