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Rob Beard wrote: > Gordon Henderson wrote: >> Not just DWP... >> >> http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/08/03/ie6-will-not-die/ >> >> Gordon >> >> > Quote from Orange... > > "Under no circumstances should Firefox be downloaded. Downloading any > application from the internet is against Orange policy. There is NO > support for Firefox in the operational environment. Orange Web > applications are all designed to run on IE6 and therefore there is a > likelihood that functionality will be impaired on Firefox. " > > > Now that makes me wonder WHY staff are being given rights to install > anything anyway, surely they would lock down the desktop to stop things > like this. Thinking about it a bit further though, surely that could be Possibly they use IE as an application launcher, something Firefox can't do. Also likely to be combined with apps which "must" run under a user with admin privs. > discriminative, for instance if a member of staff has some sort of > diability which requires additional software which requires say, IE 7 > for instance then surely they would have to cater for this. > > Sounds to me like bloody lazy developers. "Lazy" being the polite way of putting it. > > It kind of reminds me of a client who does a lot of stuff through a > bespoke web interface, they are tied to IE (currently 7) due to the fact > that the web developers (who write commercial web sites) couldn't make > their site entirely compliant with Firefox. I won't name any names as I Even though it's often looks like more effort has gone into writing browser specific code than if they'd just produced basic HTML and let the browser do its job. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html