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I'm guess this has something to do with a draconian employer?
James.
No, it has to do with the real world requirements of my job.
G.
Such as? I'm actually interested by this.
The last three years of my working career I've used primarily Linux. For a while (at my previous job) I had to KVM to a windows box periodically to use OutLook and some legacy customer management software. Now it's only Linux.
Here at EDS Windows XP, Internet Explorer and Outlook are real world requirements.... Not everyone's work place has the luxary of using OSS for their tools and platforms. Mike
Michael Honeyfield wrote:
Here at EDS Windows XP, Internet Explorer and Outlook are real world requirements....
Not everyone's work place has the luxary of using OSS for their tools and platforms.
Mike
Also, as a followup to this, we have enforced Firefox as the supported browser platform for our clients. We have spent a lot of time (== money) educating them that some sites will not work, and that this is a fault with the site, not firefox. This alone has had two benefits. 1. People now realise a little bit of what "we" know - that MS has had a bad effect on the web, as an implementation of a set of standards. 2. They know to contact the site, and advise the broken features. This feeds back to the developers that their audience is not one broken browser anymore. Note that we have NOT removed IE, as sometimes those sites need to be accessed, bad or not. We have had a small measure of success getting developers to modify their site design. So, baby steps. G.
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:42:38AM +1200, Greig McGill wrote:
Also, as a followup to this, we have enforced Firefox as the supported browser platform for our clients. We have spent a lot of time (== money) educating them that some sites will not work, and that this is a fault with the site, not firefox. This alone has had two benefits.
On the browser side, I quite like the explaination Dillo provide at this URL: http://www.dillo.org/help/bug_meter.html at "Why are standards so important?". It's something eveyone can understand, even if the target audience is the web developer. I also use XP, I'm no zealot. Spacies are the final frontier ;) Cheers, James.
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