I remember when I was a kid, the USAF flew the SR-71 Blackbird over to the Farnborough Airshow for the first time. In doing so, it broke the record for a transatlantic crossing, previously held by Concorde. Although the USAF were jubilant, I still remember the the put-down when someone pointed out that the the SR-71 pilots were wearing spacesuits, wheras the Concorde passengers were wearing dinner jackets and sipping champagne.
It does seem that many web sites seem to assume that users are only using MS + IE. Earlier this year we were looking to buy a car - I was amazed to find that the Ford UK site does not work with Win2K + Netscape 6.x! There is little chance of Linux being able to compete if there is that kind of bias.
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I remember when I was a kid, the USAF flew the SR-71 Blackbird over to the Farnborough Airshow for the first time. In doing so, it broke the record for a transatlantic crossing, previously held by Concorde. Although the USAF were jubilant, I still remember the the put-down when someone pointed out that the the SR-71 pilots were wearing spacesuits, wheras the Concorde passengers were wearing dinner jackets and sipping champagne.
It does seem that many web sites seem to assume that users are only using MS + IE. Earlier this year we were looking to buy a car - I was amazed to find that the Ford UK site does not work with Win2K + Netscape 6.x! There is little chance of Linux being able to compete if there is that kind of bias.