Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Steve Lamb wrote:

> John Summerfield wrote:
>  
>
> > As for the advisability of running Internet Exploder at all, see the
> > recent advice at slate.msn.net. Slate is _owned_ by Microsoft, and for
> > those who don't wish to check, the advice is "use firefox."
> >    
>
>    For some of us it isn't an option.  I'd love to ditch Windows and only go
> with IE6 under Linux if I could.  Or OSX.  It is the only piece of software
> that is preventing me from ditching 2k completely on my work laptop.  And why
> is that?  Because the proprietary web tools my work has built only work with
> IE6.  :(
>
>  

Show the article. Tell them some people (I am one) _will not_  use IE to 
go outside a site I control (I used it on a Mac once to cinfigure a 
router when Safari wouldn't work. I now can choose firefox and mozilla 
before Safari and IE hasn't figured since then).



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John

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