Korea Post Office Supports XPCOM Based E-Banking

Channy writes "Mozillazine is reporting that the Korean Post Office has decided to support Mozilla Firefox for internet banking and has started the developement project of an XPCOM based internet banking system. From the article: 'In past there were no web browsers for 128 bit encryption except Opera 3.5 for international users when Korea started internet banking services in 1998.'"

Comments

Support for Firefox????

[Anonymous Coward]

All you need to do is support a standard web browser (without requiring activeX crap to work), and firefox works fine.

My bank doesn't "support" firefox, but it works great.

who cares

[Anonymous Cowterd]

Who cares that they are creating an XPCOM piece of shit? Why dont they just make a web-based thing that would work for all browsers. And seriously, you people are such hypocrites. XPCOM doesnt work on IE, and activex doesnt work on Firefox. So that instantly makes Firefox better? Give me a break.

Re:who cares

[The Original Yama]

XPCOM is freely available for anyone to implement (unlike ActiveX). It is more secure than ActiveX and more functional than AJAX.

Perhaps MS should include XPCOM in IE? There's nothing stopping them, really.

Re:who cares

[zurab]

Hmm... Let's see:

Who cares that they are creating an XPCOM piece of shit?

Anyone in Korea that cares about cross platform compatibility of their banking and other related applications.

Why dont they just make a web-based thing that would work for all browsers.

Because as other posters and the article itself pointed out, the banking industry is already standardized on using SEED instead of SSL. Presumably changing that would be a tougher undertaking. Besides, XPCOM could work in any browser and any platform if a maker of that browser decided to support it - no Firefox or Mozilla suite are required.

And seriously, you people are such hypocrites.

OK, people out there definitely are.

XPCOM doesnt work on IE, and activex doesnt work on Firefox.

Sure, but the advantage of "Cross Platform Component Object Model" is that it works "cross platform." As I mentioned earlier, this enables any maker of any browser on almost any platform to use XPCOM. You can't say the same for ActiveX, which is an MS proprietary extension.

So that instantly makes Firefox better?

No, it makes XPCOM "better."

Re:Now

[strcmp]

Why should they drop support for IE? It's still the most widely used browser, despite its many flaws.

This is no worse than saying that they should drop support for Safari because it's so sparsely used.

Re:Now

[killjoe]

The average person will eat whatever you shove down their throat. MS knows that, Politicians know that, why don't you know it?

Re:I can see it now!

[mrchaotica]

Boss: "Is it unsafe for us or them?"

You: "Them. It would'nt really effect us. They are just more likely to become victims of identity theft through a virus."

That's incorrect. In case you haven't noticed, most banks advertize that they'll bail their customers out when they get defrauded. So it does effect the bank, because they have to raise interest rates to cover their losses from fraud.

Boss: "And what would we do about the advertisements our competitors would air stating that we don't properly support internet banking because we dropped support for IE? Getting new customers might become difficult."

We tell them that, (apparently) unlike other banks, we care about their financial well-being, and try to do everything possible to ensure a safe electronic banking experience.

Re:This is suicide

[pandrijeczko]

In response:

1. 100% of Internet users are capable of using XPCom because they can all download and install Firefox. Less than 100% of Internet users can never use Windows API because they don't run Windows.

2. If older people use Internet banking, they probably have enough knowledge to download things like bank statements and click a "setup.exe" to install a program they need. Both "skills" are all you need to install Firefox - after that, the interface is similar enough to IE for them to use Firefox immediately.

3. Perhaps you'll reconsider your argument when, in the future, in order to continue accessing your bank account details online, you have to pay Microsoft a regular "rental" fee to use Windows and IE because that's the only software combination that let's you do it.

4. Please remember that the Internet of today exists because of open standards where the core functionality of things like web browsing, file transfer & remote connectivity are totally platform independent. It therefore makes sense to continue in that way and since people share a lot more information and documents online, they too should all be in an open standard.

5. How would you feel if you couldn't fill up your car at the petrol station nearest your home because it's fuel was incompatible with your car & you had to go to another petrol station 10 miles away? This is an equivalent analogy to the argument you are defending.

Re:This is suicide

[starwed]

Many open standards begin life implemented by only one vendor. Even HTML, for that matter. ^_^

The point is that, when this SEED thing was developed, the Koreans couldn't make use of the already existing standards. So they pretty much had to design and then implement their own standard. It's good that they're adding implementations to multiple platforms.