[lug] OT: IE questions

[Vishal Verma]

If all the fields fill up and you can submit that's great...else you can run
an winxp VM on Virtual Box, or try wine :)

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On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 22:21, Steven A Hart <shart at colorado.edu> wrote:

> **
> From dealings with government organizations, I've found that they are
> usually well behind the curve in terms of hardware and software.  I just had
> an instance where I had to deny support of a NASA JPL code called Gipsy
> because RHEL5 is too updated in terms of python for it to run correctly.
> JPL's official stance.......Use a 5 year old version of python.
>
> I'm not surprised at all that those sites are still "officially supporting"
> IE6 and 7.  The nice thing about the newer browsers like Chrome and Firefox
> is that sometimes (not always), the programmers take these types of forms
> into consideration and they make it so that the newer browsers handle them
> correctly.  I'd say give it a go and see what happens.  It may work, or you
> may hit "submit" and it does nothing.  Just the fact that the form loads and
> is viewable could mean that you are good  to go.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> Steve
>
> On 10/04/2011 10:02 PM, Davide Del Vento wrote:
>
> Folks,
> I've just come across a (federal government) website in which I need
> to submit a form. The website says: "This Web site only supports
> Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7."
> Questions:
>
> 1) the form looks fine in Chrome/Firefox 3.6 under linux. Do you think
> that they just have that warning, but than the thing works? If the
> answer is "who knows", do you think it's possible to decide the answer
> looking at the HTML of the page?
>
> 2) weren't those IE version very old? And available only in windows
> XP? Is is possible/easy to run them on Windows Vista? Windows 7?
> Finding a M$ machine is already painful, finding a old one, it's even
> worst :-(
>
> Thanks,
> Davide
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