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Simon Robert wrote: > ... > the point is that it is only partly a web application, behind it is a > massive and complex application. The web part seems to work fine with > any browser yiou want to throw at it. It would appear that the data > crunching afterwards can't handle anything but MS. So it looks like you > can make your application and fill in the forms, but after that nothin g > will happen as your data will have fallen into a black hole. > > As for your point, yes the browser, javascript is not OS dependent. > Didn't I just say it wasn't. That's why it works! It would seem that > beyond that something can't handle the data transfers from these apps if > linux is serving them. I really don't think that this department is so > dumb that they'd say "you can enter data using Apple/Unix, but it's not > going to work" if what they meant was "only IE will work with this > site", which is patently not true. I think they are telling the truth > and are trying to stop linux/mac users wasting time entering data when > nothing is going to result from it. > > Well why don't they stop apple/Linux users from apparently being able to use it, rather than just writing about it? If the data really does fall into a black hole then it should only be a couple of lines of code to test whether your browser is spoofing or not - JScript is not JavaScript. I don't think this is a Sieble problem - someones gone out of their way to screw this up. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html