TurboTax - Linux?

[Temlakos]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:59:28PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 
>>Yeah; I've done this for several years under Linux, and am pretty happy with
>>it. Downside is Intuit stores all of your private data on their servers;
>>upside is kinda the same thing, since it's all very easy the next year since
>>they can prefill anything that hasn't changed.
> 
> 
> Doh! This year, turbotax for the web gives me the dreaded:
> 
>   TurboTax for the Web does not work with the Web browser you are using. You
>   must use one of the following supported browsers:
> 
>   Windows®
> 
>     Windows XP         Internet Explorer® 6.0, Netscape® 7.x, AOL® 7.0 
>                         or higher
>     Windows 2000/98/Me Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, Netscape 7.x, AOL
>                         7.0 or higher
>     Windows NT®        Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, AOL 7.0 or higher
> 
>   Mac OS®
> 
>      Mac OS 9.0 or higher   Safari 1.x, AOL for Mac OS X
> 

That's probably because TurboTax for the Web is written in MS Active 
Server Pages or J-Script Pages or some proprietary mess like that. 
Intuit needs to write things in Java, and otherwise stick to 
W3C-compliant code. Until they do--well, I suppose we'll have to learn 
how to run IE5 on WINE--if we can /get/ IE5 separate and apart from Windows.

Temlakos