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[NMLUG] A true IE replacement??
Paul Tietjens wrote:
> Tim Emerick wrote:
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>> I've been using firefox since it first came out. Most of the
>> corporate sites that I _need_ to visit usually use active-x or some
>> other IE only web tricks and firefox/konquerer balk at them. It's
>> really a shame when an entire industry is entrenched in MS technology.
>> I've been trying to find a browser that I can run on either linux or
>> windows that offers all of the functionality of IE. Just how close
>> can firefox (or another browser) come to being 99% IE compatible? Tim
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> And importantly, if it could be "IE Compatibile" would we want it to be?
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No, _WE_ True Believer OS Geeks wouldn't want it to be. Unfortunately,
there are a hell of a lot of sites -- including our cash cow
www.CPGjoblist.com -- where 98%+ of all users are on IE 6 and the rest
are probably running pirate W98 because they havemn't upgraded from
5.00. ;-) The reality is the only way we'll get them to switch to
something non-=MS is to act exactly like MS, and that probably means the
damn plugins need to be IE-compatible, too, as well as the Active-X that
Tim mentions.
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Don Wilde ---------> Silver Lynx <----------
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