Peter Van Lone wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:23:14 -0500, Greg Freemyer
wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:17:57 -0500, James Knott
wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote:
I saw it in a spam, but you can also find it in the small print at
http://register.novell.com/registernow/naatt.cfm#2154
Click on more info for Online Novell Linux Desktop training, then the second sentence is:
"Participants need an Internet connection and Internet Explorer to experience the web presentation and connect remotely to a server hosting an image of the Novell Linux Desktop."
Maybe those ads are targeted at people, who don't know there are alternatives to IE. ;-)
I think the requirement is because these webinar functions are hosted (not a Novell provided function), and the hosted system is architected around IE.
Firefox is a better browser, yes .... but for several years IE has been the browser of choice for those developing commercial web applications. It will take a little while, and some more market upswing by FF, to change that dramatically.
It is only with the "next" (ie Open Enterprise Server, now in beta) version of iManager that FF works well as the browser for this management tool. Older versions worked, but functioned awkwardly.
peter
There has been no CHOICE, netscape used to work with a kind of threat attached "You seem to be using a browser other than IE" etc., etc., then seemingly as time went by they discovered a way not to allow other browsers. Netscape and mozilla have been around for years, but some developers are either biased against other browsers or they don't have the required smarts, but many sites accept just about any browser. I've seen Linux firewalls that can only be configured to work with Windows. Novell are not alone as many moons ago IBM put up some Linux software for download by IE only and on searchenterpriselinux.com there are webcasts to do with Linux that require a Windows platform. Perhaps they do this thinking that Linux guys don't need to know the stuff, but whatever the reason, it's plain daft. The best strategy I've read of - one company converting to Linux from Windows fired those Windows guys who couldn't adapt and hired fewer Linux guys as the numbers needed were not as many as needed for Windows. Perhaps Novell should fire the few still stuck in a time warp. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and Keen Flyer =====ALMOST ALL LINUX USED HERE, Solaris 10 SPARC is just for play=====