[TriLUG] TurboTax for the web and linux

[Andrew Perrin]

Indeed. I went so far as to get Netscape Navigator 4.07 running under Wine
(which, by the way, worked -- wine is really quite impressive), but the
turbotax site still doesn't work under it; it comes up, but there's no
text, only graphics.

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin at unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
 Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
      269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA


On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:

> >From: "M. Mueller/bhu5nji" <bhu5nji at yahoo.com>
> 
> >Anybody got a Netscape 4.06 and up (excluding 4.6) they can click into
> >http://www.turbotax.intuit.com/welcome/perm/icomnews/welcome.htm
> >and report results? You've got to click on "Use TurboTax 1040" to complete
> >the test.  Success would be to NOT get the message about not supporting 
> >your
> >browser.
> 
> I've tried with Konqueroro 2.2.2. I can display the page, click the next 
> one. I get no message at all like "We do not support your browser". But I 
> cannot get to the page!
> 
> So, AFAIK, it looks like a a case of bad JavaScript programming, where they 
> do not use complete paths (that is, contrary to W3C recommendations) and, of 
> course, this just works with IExplorer 5.x
> 
> My .02 c
> 
> 
> Salut,
> Sinner
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