Subject: Re: [Netatalk-devel] Re: IE5 on Mac and etiquette...
From: Harry Zink/Netatalk List (netatalk@fizbin.com)
Date: Thu Aug 10 2000 - 16:37:00 EDT
on 8/10/00 12:07 PM, Matthew Keller at kellermg@potsdam.edu wrote:
> *ROTFLMAO* You *lol* just *lol* said *lol* that *lol* IE *lol* is *lol*
> "the most" *lol* "standards compliant" *lol* *lol* *lol* *LMAO* Ok i'm
> better now. Comedy Central could use you.
Okay, I think it's time for another lesson in etiquette, particularly in how
to respond to questions deserving an honest, and thoughtful answer.
I'm no friend of MS, or their shoddy products, but unfortunately on the
Mcintosh, their IE product is far better than many of the alternatives,
including Netscape. Netscape crashes regularly, does not support
stylesheets, or the latest WWW standards as completely as MSIE 5 for the
Mac, and is quite slow.
In this case, on the Mac, it *IS* the most stable, and most used browser
right now. Laughing at the user for pointing out that he can't get to the
sourceforge site doesn't really help that particular person ONE SINGLE BIT.
And, before you start correcting me that you have provided a plathora of
alternatives:
> Opera, Mozilla, Netscape, Lynx, Gzilla, KFM all see it fine.
Would you mind telling me which one of these work on the Macintosh, which
this particular user *IS* using? Mozilla might, if you want to deal with a
product that crashes even more heavily than Netscape's, but none of the
others work at all on that platform - or did you overlook the user clearly
stating that he was on a Mac?
BWS< I suggest giving iCab a try - albeit also not a finished product, it
might at least allow you to get into sourceforge by supporting the security
certificate - otherwise, you'd need to use Netscape for that task - I do,
and while a hassle, it at least lets me get in.
My suggestion, let's write to the sourceforge admins and ask exactly WHY it
doesn't support MSIE, albeit I have a suspicion it has to do with them
usinga home-brewn certificate, which MSIE doesn't recognize (and Netscape
has the brains to allow you to let it learn).
There *IS* some way to make it work, by making MSIE accept and download a
new certificate, but I can't find the reference to that work-around any
more.
Anyone else have any idea how to force MSIE/Mac to accept new certificates?
Harry
-- CAN'T SEE MAC IN CHOOSER UNDER RedHat 6.2: If you get errors starting AppleTalk under RedHat 6.2 and Mandrake 7.1, you need to manually add "alias net-pf-5 appletalk" to your /etc/conf.modules file.
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