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

[Daniel Bodanske]

I can't believe this is still happening these days. It seems so late 90's ....

Dan

On 3/16/07, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com> wrote:
> 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."
> >         <k12osn at redhat.com>
> > Message-ID: <45F9766A.1050009 at paasda.org>
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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).
>
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