Getting Fox News to work with Firefox

jim tate mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jan 24 20:48:10 UTC 2007


Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 24/01/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:28, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
>> > >
>> > > 'Insecure' is the word that gets attention :-)  A week or so 
>> later the
>> > > site was working correctly in FF and Konqueror.
>> > >
>> > > Anne
>> >
>> > Hah.  good work Anne. :)
>> >
>> Getting to talk to the right people can be difficult, but rewarding 
>> if you
>> manage it.  On this occasion there was a moment's stunned silence 
>> when I told
>> them about the insecurity, then he admitted that he didn't know that.
>>
>> On another occasion I was having problems with one section of the 
>> on-line
>> banking.  I could arrange an inter-account transfer, but couldn't see 
>> the
>> amount on the page where I had to verify it.  I was using Mozilla 
>> Mail at the
>> time - about 3 years ago - and went to Mozillazine, where one of the
>> developers talked me through finding the bit of code that caused the 
>> problem.
>> It was making a M$-only call.  He told me exactly what I should say 
>> about
>> where the problem was and what the fix would be.  I emailed the 
>> bank's web
>> maintainer, and got no reply, but again, a few days later, the page was
>> working correctly.
>>
>> I say all this just to tell people that it may be daunting, at times, 
>> trying
>> to get the 'big ones' to listen, but it's worth persevering.
>>
>> Anne
>>
>
> Even if you don't go to those lengths of debugging the site's code,
> people can still make a difference by complaining/informing a
> webmaster that they're site does not work on thier system. I run two
> sites that generate the money to support my family, that I coded
> myself. If someone complained that they couldn't see my site, I'd sure
> as hell work as hard as I could to ensure that it's viewable by all.
> That's my bread.
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
> http://lyricslist.com/
> http://what-is-what.com/
>
Your 100% right and I wished we had a lot more IT people like you, But 
these $Windoze IT people could care less
about Linux Users.

Jim




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