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Friday, July 16th, 2004 at 11:40 AM | 2 commentsThe hardest part about a switch campaign is reaching companies. It’s costly for a company to switch its users over to a different browser. You would think not, but after I listened to a tech describe the process — it made sense. Remember IE is closely tied with the operating system and Office. A company utilizing any of these is going to have a greater challenge dumping IE.
A company with 550 desktops has made the leap to Mozilla. One of my newsletter clients was still using Netscape 4.x as their browser and we had to do a lot of workarounds to ensure the newsletter looked right in Netscape 4.x. I can imagine what you’re thinking… preaching to the choir! [ Link Holly Marie ]
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2 comments
Or, to phrase it the way CERT did:
“Note that using a different web browser will not remove IE from a Windows system, and other programs may invoke IE, the WebBrowser ActiveX control, or the HTML rendering engine (MSHTML).”
I love the documentation of Mozilla and have used it as reference several times. However I have been unable to get Mozilla’s use of the W3C’s web conventions to match Internet Explorer. IE allows me to parallel process data from almost any source and pass control to the user. It allows reading and manipulating almost any web page as a data source. The part web users have liked the most is the smart transfers between the web and Excel. The semantic web communicates with Excel instructing it to lay the data out as interpreted on the web page. Thus the user gets nice shading of headers and lines around cell ranges and data that’s data. They don’t seem to notice the rest since they already use it in Office and Windows. If Mozilla could do this it would be a good alternative.
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