Re: Netscape 6 bashing

Actually, no banking/financial institution is going to allow a first
generation browser through their security without extensive testing.  That's
why you can't use your bank, not because Netscape is screwed up.

Justin H.

----- Original Message -----
From: "howardm" <howardm(at)achilles.net>
To: "Raj Bhaskar" <raj(at)lordofthemoon.com>; <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Netscape 6 bashing


> I think you've just been lucky.
> My bank has an internet site where I can check my current account balance,
> VISA balance and make payments etc.  - they have a warning on their
> website -
> "Royal Bank does not currently support Netscape 6.x browsers.
> Please do not upgrade your browser at this time. "
> If they can't figure it out then there's obviously enough problems that I
> will never change to Netscape 6, I figure there's probably lots of other
> websites that don't work either, and rather than complain about the
websites
> I'm going to blame the browser.
> I'm on the web to use websites, and I want a browser to work.
>
> howardm
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Raj Bhaskar <raj(at)lordofthemoon.com>
> To: <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 1:36 PM
> Subject: Netscape 6 bashing
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > > Be sure EVERYTHING you want is backed up before you turn AOL-6
> > > loose.  Though not a dangerous as Netscape 6,
> >
> > Why is there all this negativity over Netscape 6?  I've had it running
> quite
> > happily for a couple of months now on a Windows NT4 Server (don't ask!)
> > without any real problems at all.  Okay, so it's quite slow to start up
> > (which is the main reason that I haven't installed it on my P166 at
home)
> > but I've found it at least as stable (if not more so) than NN4.x.  Have
I
> just
> > been lucky?
> >
> > Raj.
> > --
> > __        __
> > |   | |   |   Rajnish Bhaskar, University of Glasgow
> > |_ / |_ /    E-Mail: raj(at)lordofthemoon.com
> > |   \ |   \   Home Page: http://lordofthemoon.com
> > |    \ |__/
> > We're women.  We have double standards to live up to.
> >        -- Ally McBeal
> >
> >
>

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