[TriLUG] quickbooks vs sql-ledger TANGENT 2cents

[Glen Ford]

Brian Henning wrote:

>>(why oh why would a company deliberately design their web
>>page to exclude non-IE browsers, *especially* when your product is
>>SUPPOSED TO RUN ON LINUX!!!!!  i mean what kind of grade-A fscking
>>moron would do that?  no offense to ryan, but gee what a shock they
>>don't have much of a user base)
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>That galls me to no end...  The world does not revolve around Windows/IE,
>despite what Microsoft would like the unsuspecting public to believe..
>Increasingly less so, in fact, as certain distributions of Linux gradually
>become more novice-friendly.  Any company that designs a website that
>requires one particular browser (especially when it's such a
>standards-to-the-wind beast as IE) deserves to be shot on sight with
>caution-orange-paint-loaded Super Soakers.  Or maybe hot pink.
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>~B
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Doesn't AOL use netscape?  That is alot of potential customer to loose 
just because a site is I.E. specific.
/glen


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Glen Ford
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