[Freeipa-users] Complaint web browsers

[Steven Jones]

Hi,

Out in the real world however.....

Problem is when you come to a Windows dominated environment and you have ex-windows managers, windows admins and windows useradmins and a windows help desk who only want to use IE because that's all they understand.  They look for any excuse to not let me deploy a piece of Linux orientated kit, so being forced to run Firefox might be it.  You may not appreciate the battles I have to get anything Linux on site despite having 80%+ of the academics behind me, plus the 600 Mac users who feel like second hand citizens because of above attitude.

It may seem crazy that something so minor to some is an issue but the reality is that's how small some ppls minds are and they are in charge......

Also some sites dont allow installation of anything but a particular browser....

>From my perspective I already have to run IE for something's because Firefox doesnt work java based hardware being a classic example.....this means I have to run a virtual Windows machine or remove Windows from my desktop and use Win7.....



regards

Steven Jones

Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE

Victoria University, Wellington, NZ

0064 4 463 6272

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From: freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com [freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com] on behalf of Ben Eisenbraun [bene at hkl.hms.harvard.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, 19 October 2011 4:59 a.m.
To: Duncan.Innes at virginmoney.com
Cc: freeipa-users at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Complaint web browsers

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 04:52:24PM +0100, Duncan.Innes at virginmoney.com wrote:
> Who knows if your admin is running Windows, Mac or Linux desktop?

And that's the beauty of standardizing on Firefox support: it doesn't
matter, since Firefox runs on all those platforms (and more).

Given that engineering time is expensive, I would rather see that time
spent on fixing bugs and adding new features than on trying to support
other browers.

2 cents, etc.

-ben

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| Ben Eisenbraun
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