On Tue, 01 May, suse(???)... "mike" on the sig...wrote:

Dear all I almost works 100% from an Acorn !Fresco browser.

It /does/ work 100% in Acorn !Oregano. Just make sure you set IE5 in the "Who am I" box on Choices>Misc. If (like me) you jib at making MSIE's market share look even bigger than it is, it doesn't even need to be a permanent "saved" change. Just click "set" and reload the page.

It just stops on the javascript.

A well known weakness of !Fresco. !Fresco is dead. All RISC OS users ought to get Oregano or WebsterXL.

Well I certainly fooled the dear old Gov ! :-)

It shows how INCOMPETENT their web design contractors are, if anyone takes all that guff they spout about security (on the "unsupported browser" page) remotely seriously.

When I get my SuSe linux on line then I must try it again.

I gather you are stuffed, because Netscape doesn't do the masquerading stuff like these cunning RISC OS programmers have provided. ISTR Opera may, though. Getting round this idiot site is not the point of course. In fact I'm not sure that every contributor has picked up on the point, because of the slightly oblique nature of the original posting. The Govt has no right at all to commission a site with these arbitrary preferential settings in the first place. It contravenes their own "open access" guidelines AFAICR (don't remember where I read it, to check). They have paid loads of your money out to a contractor for an incompetent job which discriminates against European browsers and platforms, and still isn't secure by the feeble standards they have set for themselves! Opera? Symbian? Open Source?(I know, not all European); not to mention British RISC OS and the Bush Internet TVs. Please nag your MP about it; better still, nag a newspaper. Don't let the fact that the site is a crashing bore put you off BTW. ATM you can only do registration for on-line Tax Returns from it (LOL)! It could be the thin end of yet another wedge. Gary -- G M Locock, Network Manager Bablake Junior School, Coundon Road, Coventry, UK, CV1 4AU Tel: (+44) 24 7663 4052; Fax: (+44) 24 7663 3290 Web: http://www.bablakejs.co.uk Email: gml@bablakejs.co.uk