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Re: ie7 sooner run on linux than win9x?

  • Subject: Re: ie7 sooner run on linux than win9x?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:18:37 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / ISBE, Manchester University / ITS / Netscape / MCC
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__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Tuesday 05 September 2006 16:00 \__

> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  wrote
> on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:46:17 +0100
> <36188480.N9VkLyIkgA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> __/ [ casioculture@xxxxxxxxx ] on Tuesday 05 September 2006 11:05 \__
>>
>>> sasquatch wrote:
>>>> Linux has it's own set of great browsers. Quit bugging about IE, if you
>>>> want it in Linux you're gonna have to use wine, it'll be slow, it'll
>>>> look ugly, and it still doesn't have tabbed browsing (a feature that I
>>>> cannot live without).
>>>>
>>>> Browsers to use on Linux:
>>>>
>>>> Firefox: The greatest and best open-source browser.
>>>> Opera: Not oss (open source) unfortunately, but it's a damn good
>>>> browser (though it doesn't like gmail).
>>> 
>>> I'd put Konqueror before Opera.
>>
>> I'm sorry, but people /still/ must use IE. How else will they install
>> (potentially arbitrary) programs? *grin* And I'm not thinking about
>> ActiveX. Neither is browser compatibility testing a concern.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Roy
>>
> 
> Well, the good news is that for me at least,
> one app has been Mozillafied.  :-)


Excellent. That's progress! *smile* I love the sound of collars popping.


> The bad news is that leaves one app left -- our bug reporting system.
> Grump.


Use Linux. That bug system would not be needed anymore. Just log in to
bugs.DOMAIN.org instead. *grin*


> Still, the fact that IE (sans ActiveX, presumably) runs on
> Linux is nice -- if one absolutely has to run IE, one can.


And accept the security risks? I can still remember your interesting
experiment where you tested if the IE bug was cross platform. I think it
involved JS, but I can't recall for sure...

Best wishes,

Roy

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