Re: Getting Fox News to work with Firefox

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 13:57 -0800, Les wrote:
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 10:10 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 09:21 -0500, Joe Klemmer wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote:

Let us forget about news sites for a minute. firefox will not allow you
to check the balance on your credit card by going to: www.citicards.com

These things really have to be dealt with if Linux is to be a viable
alternative to Windows.

Now this one is completely off base. The video issue was
partially relative in that things might work better if FC came with all
the proprietary codecs installed but if firefox doesn't work with
citicards.com then it is 100% a problem with the site and nothing at all
to do with firefox, fedora, linux or anything at all related to them.
This belated comment id not completely true. Of course part of the
problem is with the web site. But since firefox loads the web site in
Windows part of the problem is with firefox on Linux.
Hi, Aaron,
This is one view. However, Windows plays fast and loose with
standards. This means that software that is not written to the
standards will not load on browsers that adhere to the standards. One
effect is that writing and testing software for Windows means that you
have to go to Redmond and verify your software across many platforms.
Another effect is that the Virtual Machine for Java that Microsoft used
originally loosend Java Security, and left holes for intrusive software,
as well as incompatibilities with existing standards driven by Sun.

As the old joke goes, "How many Microsoft engineers does it take to
change a lightbulb? None, they redefine darkness to be the standard."

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