LINUX BUSINESS

[Howard Lowndes]

You'll probably find that MSIE is not so fussy about malformed HTML as is
Netscape; such things as missing </TABLE> or the like.  It's typical that
M$ accepts sloppy coding, even when it is generated by web editors, it's
symptomaic of M$' approach to programming.

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Jim Watson wrote:

> I am working in CANBERRA and would like to use
> LINUX for my business but am having a few
> frustrations.
>
> The "Government Communications Unit" has a web
> site which presents all government business
> opportunities (requests for tender). The home page
> says
> "Welcome to this new version of our Site,
> specifically designed to conform to all
> Commonwealth Government web site guidelines. We
> welcome your feedback."
>
> If I follow the links to the tenders using
> netscape 4.77 (linux) or netscape 4.78 (windows
> 98) or netscape 4.76 (windows 95 from a govt dept)
> the pages are blank although view > pagesource
> shows there is text there but it just can not be
> seen. The "feedback" thingy does not work in
> netscape either, so I phoned them up over a week
> ago but nothing has been fixed. Is it true that
> the "govt guidelines" require a MS IE browser? The
> pages can be viewed after saving locally but not
> on-line.
>
> I use the stgeorge internet banking but since they
> "upgraded" this a couple of weeks ago, the java
> applet will not run from a local applet anymore
> using netscape 4.78 although this version is
> "supported", i have to download 300k applet every
> time i connect. it used to work ok.
>
> I use the quicktrade share trading site but the
> research pages have not worked properly with
> netscape on any platform since about 6 months ago.
>
> I go to the tax office to lodge my superannuation
> forms which MUST be lodged "electronically" but
> the program is available only for MS windows and
> Mac, it is +20Mgbytes of program download to
> generate about 1kb of fixed width text file.
>
> My question is this: can anyone point me to a
> lobby GROUP i could join in CANBERRA that will try
> and get the govt information and others to be
> accessable to USERS of different platforms such as
> LINUX?
>

-- 
Howard.
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