[Novalug] can you make linux work with websites that insist on Windows and IE? if so, how?

[Mark Smith]

it depends upon the browser.  you want to change your "personality".
opera has a dropdown making it easier.  iirc, mozilla requires that
you edit a file.  with some browsers you can't change it.  check the
help pages for your specific browser.

many MS products force you to use IE for no good reason, but as was
pointed out already, some content types require MS/IE (activeX in
particular).

good luck.

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:55:24PM -0400, Nino Pereira wrote:
> List,
> 
> two US Government web sites I need absolutely, positively insist that
> they work only with Windows (XP or older, actually) as the OS and IE
> as the browser. Nothing else will, apparently, pick up the subtle
> commands that the Windows&IE combination reacts to.
> 
> From what I can tell, the maintenance of these sites is contracted
> out to a Microsoft-only shop, or perhaps even to Microsoft itself.
> Some people at these sites bemoan this limitation, others don't
> care, but the problem is: I have to ship files back and forth from
> my linux machine to an old, marginally useful Windows box that I had
> sitting in a corner somewhere, a real pain.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a way to get around these limitations, or,
> if this doesn't exist, an article that tells me what is so special
> about Windows that it doesn't play nice with others?
> 
> Thank you,
> 

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