On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:56:45AM -0400, Richard Campbell wrote:
This is only due to missing activex support in most cases. More and more sites are finding that it's BAD to be locked into IE's way of doing things.
For the record i frequent 20 different sites a day, and none of them are incompatible with firefox.
In the Netherlands there are a few big banks:
Postbank Rabobank ABN-AMRO
the first is quite clueless anyway, they first didn't support alternative browsers at all, now they've started testing it on several setups. However, wrong version of java, and you're screwed, some browsers work, some don't. You need to have luck on your site.
Rabobank works in most browsers but gives a warning at the first visit that it's only compatible with msie.
ABN-AMRO works like a charm in all browsers, good interface, other sites could learn from it :D
So basically, banking sucks over here when you don't have MSIE and aren't with ABN-AMRO.
Also, i tried to convert my father to firefox. He wholeheartedly agreed that it was a lot better browser. But almost all sites he needed (distributors of computerparts and sites for investing on the stock market and stuff) didn't work in firefox. So he threw it away after a day, since it was totally worthless to him.
Please don't get me wrong, i agree that firefox is better, and that all sites should stick to webstandards. But it's just not going to happen anytime soon.
Mark