Comment Re:Reality (Score 2) 606
I never said anything about standards. The first time they rejected my browser version because it wasn't yet supported, that was the first thing I thought: so long as they're coding to standards, what's the big deal?
But how many browsers are 100% standards-compliant?
Coding to standards can cause unexpected (and potential insecure) things to happen on browsers or environments that are not up to standards.
How do you tell? You test and certify.
And to answer your question: The site www.bankofamerica.com is running Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP3 on Solaris. I don't know if that's what their account management stuff runs under, though. I don't think that the issue was "Windows vs. Linux" but "Mainstream vs. any of the Linux browsers he had at his disposal". Maybe he didn't have access to a browser that his bank did support (under Linux). I don't know.
But how many browsers are 100% standards-compliant?
Coding to standards can cause unexpected (and potential insecure) things to happen on browsers or environments that are not up to standards.
How do you tell? You test and certify.
And to answer your question: The site www.bankofamerica.com is running Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP3 on Solaris. I don't know if that's what their account management stuff runs under, though. I don't think that the issue was "Windows vs. Linux" but "Mainstream vs. any of the Linux browsers he had at his disposal". Maybe he didn't have access to a browser that his bank did support (under Linux). I don't know.
