__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Sunday 13 August 2006 12:46 \__
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Three in four UK colleges consider open-source
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>> ,----[ ]
>>| Sixty-eight percent of respondents said they had deployed Firefox as
>>| well as Internet Explorer.
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http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/news/2161870/three-four-uk-colleges-consider
>>
>> It's intersting that the article states "as well as (deployed) Internet
>> Explorer". Internet Explorer _CANNOT_ be removed. At Manchester
>> University, all clusters have Opera, Firefox and that file manager that is
>> also a semi-cooked Web browser that installs programs.
>
> Presumably Firefox is being used to get some security. The next logical
> step would be to go for full linux installs, thus getting around the IE
> problem completely, and avoiding tussles with WGA and other malware.
Reducing this to aspects of security may be deceiving. Our university offers
Firefox, Opera and a file manager that also acts as a semi-cooked Web
browser and malware installer. Most students find themselves drawn to a
familiar icon that is a Blue E. I wonder if it's an indication of bad
eduction forced from above. Anyhoo...
I can recall a case where a student could not access a page, or maybe it was
rendered too badly for some form to be completed [1]. I suggested Firefox
and this resolved the issue. Web standards are probably more important than
security, assuming the browser does not sit atop a house of cards.
Best wishes,
Roy
[1] I know that I can't edit WordPress pages with IE. Some CSS bugs simply
mean that certain element do not show up *gasp*.
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