[K12OSN] OT: Required use of IE by State DOE

[William Fragakis]

IE6 will run via WINE in LTSP but it still occasionally breaks on
certain sites that Windows IE handles. 

Regards,
William

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 14:11 -0500, k12osn-request at redhat.com wrote:
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:38:02 -0700
> From: Huck <dhuckaby at paasda.org>
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] OT: Required use of IE by State DOE
> To: "Support list for open source software in schools."
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> Not sure if this will help you or not..
> 
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Internet_Explorer_6_SP1
> 
> I realize this particular is maybe Gentoo specific but I know it
> works 
> on Ubuntu and Debian machines, I haven't tried in an LTSP environment.
> 
> --Huck
> 
> 
> 
> David Hopkins wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > This is off-topic, but apparently the DOE for Delaware is
> developing 
> > software (paying for the development) which will require the use of
> IE 
> > in order to be used.  When asked why, the response is typically of
> the 
> > form 'because that is what we want'.  Now, this is going to impact
> the 
> > use of K12LTSP (or the adoption of anything that is not
> MS-centric).