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Weblog:   The Best Firefox Extension Ever?
Subject:   cool... well wait
Date:   2006-01-31 06:46:09
From:   pgralla
Response to: cool... well wait

There are still quite a few sites that work best, or only work with IE. The most notable one, of course, is the Windows Update site. But there are plenty of others out there as well.


In addition, there are quite a few Web-based applications in use at private corporations that are IE only, or that work best in IE.


So the problem hasn't gone away, and this extension is a great way to solve it.
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  • cool... well wait
    2006-01-31 07:13:19  tlaurenzo1 [Reply | View]

    I think that the in-house apps are probably the biggest challenge in this area. I have experienced more than my share of them that work just fine if the browser detection logic (which seems to invariably redirect to a "Download IE 4 Now" page) is circumvented or removed. In my experience, maintenance of these apps falls to a single web developer/designer who marveled in the glory of IE back in the 4.0 days and is yet to allow for anything different. In many cases as well, I have seen 3rd-party apps that should be cross-platform which were simply installed wrong and therefore rendered inoperative on non-IE browsers.

    Anyway, your point is taken.
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