** Reply to message from Rikard Johnels <rikjoh@norweb.se> on Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:49:39 +0100
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:03, DogWalker wrote:
"Susemail" <susemail@hawaii.rr.com> said:
I have online banking and I'm only able to access services with a Windows browser. How can I use Konqueror or Opera or lynx or any linux browser to access my online services?
I am using Konqueror 3.1.4 and can now access my banks online, no problem. Under the Konqueror version with SuSE 7.2 I could not. I suppose the reason may be that the older Konqueror (and Mozilla,too) may have been using a less secure encryption method than the bankers now want. Update Konqueror.
Thanks, Jerome
I have problems with one of my banks here in Sweden. My personal bank is OK, but my company one is not Thankfully it works in Firefox. As far as i have been able to find out, its mostly because its IE specific Java applets. The programmers are so lame that they cant write clean code. And as IE itself is happy with broken code (at time REQUIRES broken code) its a-OK with most webarchitects.
Not until we get at true crossplatform standard which ALL conform to, we will keep having these problems..
Too many sites are "anti anythingelse than IE" Hotmail for instance. It changed something on their pages, and now o cant get to them neither in Firefox nor Konqueror. It sux!
Agreed. Another Linux-unfriendly site is eBay. I wanted to sell a camera, so I went to the site and started to set up a description of the item. Midway through the process there is supposed to be a screen where they have an HTML editor so that you can format your listing using such "tweaks" as bold, italics, centering, change the color of the letters, etc. etc. Well, the tabs and buttons for the HTML editor don't show up unless you're using IE. Konqi doesn't work, neither do Mozilla or Firefox. I had several communications with eBay tech support and the answer was always the same -- you have to use IE. Unfortunately I don't know HTML coding to do it manually -- I need that HTML editor. But no luck. They're just a "Windows shop" and seem oblivious to the fact that there are some folks who don't/can't/won't use IE. Oh, well... ;o( Gil