On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:47:56 +1300, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: > One other note, if your planning on doing any internet banking, your pretty > much stuck with Firefox or Opera (using binary emulation). Haven't tried ie > under wine on openbsd, it may work also. > > Why? Because a lot of the internet banking sites are useless and while > things like konqueror load them, badly hacked together js, and other bits > fail a lot, things you won't notice until you go to do something like a > funds transfer etc. You might be lucky and your banks website isn't ass. But > I would be checking it thoroughly before making a browser decision.
Talking about brainfucked bank sites... My bank checks for the browser's user-agent: Firefox on win32 an Linux passes, Firefox on *BSD is denied access, unless you change the user-agent string... I sent them a mail explaining them why this utter nonsense and I just got a standard reply. Jona -- "I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and tell you that you are free." Eris, Goddess Of Chaos, Discord & Confusion"
