Friday, 21. July 2006, 14:07:00
compatibility, ie, linux, microsoft
...
Well, the title makes it look like if the Windows operating system is evolving, and this is sort of it in a way. Windows has evolved a little bit now with Gnome's leading e-mail client
Evolution being ported to this closed platform.
Yes, you heard it right.
Evolution is now available on Windows thanks to somebody named
Tor Lillqvist. So go and enjoy it. I believe Thunderbird will have to keep up, and Outlook (Express) too, of course. Do you think Evolution will be to the latter like Firefox has been to Internet Explorer? Only time can tell.
Thursday, 26. January 2006, 19:06:44
opera, firefox, ie, browser
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It's always sad when a web site explicitly states that it doesn't support a certain browser. Phrases like "this page is best viewed in Internet Explorer 5 or above" always annoy me a little. And now with all this Firefox hype, the same thing happens with this alternative web browser. Firefox fan-boys are now populating the web with "Best viewed in Firefox 1+" kind of pages. I guess this is an attempt to fight
IE back, after all these years, but they're also hurting the rest of the browsers, and they're doing exactly what most of this advocates criticized.
I would love Opera becoming mainstream in the desktop browser market, but if this ever happens, I wouldn't like web sites developing pages that are "best viewed" in Opera. Browser choice should be something about browser features, speed, stability, security and the like. It shouldn't be a matter of compatibility with web sites. But anyway, there are so many things wrong in this world, that asking for some justice in browser-land is definitely not a priority.
Why all this rant? you may wonder. Well, I was intending to visit
Gap Online, and I didn't find what I expected. Instead, this is what I got
The relevant part of the message literally says
We're sorry, but we do not support the version of the browser you are using.
Our site works best with the following browsers:
PC users
Internet Explorer 5.5 and above. Click here to download the latest browser.
Netscape 7 and above. Click here to download the latest browser.
Mozilla (including Firefox) 1.0 and above. Click here to download the latest browser.
Mac users
Netscape 7 and above. Click here to download the latest browser.
Mozilla (including Firefox) 1.0 and above. Click here to download the latest browser.
Safari 2.0.3* and above. Click here to update your browser.
And what did I do? I do have Firefox installed, and I have access to a Windows box where I could have used the brand old ever-buggy and platform-dependent Internet Explorer 6. But I didn't. I restrained myself from visiting this site.
UpdateI reported this
problem with Gap Online in the
"Open the Web" forum.
