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echo: nthelp
to: Gary Wiltshire
from: Mike `/m`
date: 2004-09-23 16:38:10
subject: Re: MS to secure IE for XP only

From: Mike '/m' 

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:35:41 -0400, "Gary Wiltshire"
 wrote:

>> Yup.  I use OPera here almost excllusively.  When I do run into a site
>> that I
>> want to view that uses ActiveX (the only reason I see to use IE at the
>> moment), I always send the webmaster a note asking, "what are you
>> thinking?...."
>>
>> I get some real interesting replies.
>>
>>  /m
>>
>
>Care to share?  Opera's my main browser too.  Goddamn tvguide.com just
>broke that changing their format recently.  I'm a heavy user of their
>listings and now I have to use IE to see it.  Doesn't Opera-te properly.

A full range, from the webmaster who was so pro-MS that he made Rich look
like a MS-bashing bigot, to the surprisingly frequent ~my non-technical
boss says I have to do it this way~.

 /m

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