Microsoft wants to stamp out IE6!
Orson Cart
Well then, release a build of IE7 for Win2000 ya pricks!
Mark Lloyd
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>Well then, release a build of IE7 for Win2000 ya pricks!
You could use Firefox. Even the newest version works on w2k.
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Mark Lloyd
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>Mark Lloyd <mll...@notroachstupid.usant.invalid> wrote:
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>>You could use Firefox. Even the newest version works on w2k.
> The problem that I've encountered is that "out of browser" Silverlight
>applications do not run unless IE7 or newer is present, which requires, at
>least, WinXP.
"Silverlight" is something I've managed to avoid so far. I didn't know
anything about it requiring IE. That'd be another reason to avoid it.
Big Dog
news:FI6dneUGibjn23nQ...@earthlink.com:
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> Mark Lloyd <mll...@notroachstupid.usant.invalid> wrote:
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>>"Silverlight" is something I've managed to avoid so far. I didn't know
>>anything about it requiring IE. That'd be another reason to avoid it.
> Well the website that is affiliated with a financial newspaper to
> which I
> subscribe requires Silverlight for its online charts. Silverlight
> works well in FF3.6 under Win2k. The local, so-called "out of browser"
> apps require at least IE7. Sadly, the latest version of the stock
> charting and technical analysis software that I use is one of those:
> It's a local application with on-demand online chart updating. At
> present, I'm still able to use the prior version but have no clue how
> much longer it will be supported. That's where M$ gets us: They induce
> commercial services to use their proprietary crap and the customers
> have to go along or go shopping. I could go shopping, I guess, except
> that both services are exceptional values that I've used for several
> years.
How do you get Silverlight to work with FF3?