[plug] The Australian Business Registry

[Evert van Dijk]

Not to be funny but
- have you tried the "I am confident I meet the standards" option? or
- Firefox?

I have to agree with you that Mozilla/Firefox are definately more secure 
and enjoyable to use than IE,
but most web developers or their bosses seem to think that IE still has 
the undisputed market share
they need to see links like
http://news.com.com/FireFox+continues+gains+against+IE/2100-1032_3-5545930.html?tag=nefd.top
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Firefox has 3% of the browser market share, IE on decline 
http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P1918

and tables like
Browser 2/18/05 1/14/05 12/3/04 11/5/04 6/4/04
Internet Explorer 89.85% 90.28% 91.80% 92.89% 95.48%
Firefox 5.69% 4.95% 4.06% 3.03% 3.53%
Non-Firefox
Netscape and
Mozilla browsers 2.47% 2.64% 2.83% 2.95%
Other 1.9% 2.06% 1.25% 1.07% 0.95%
http://www.websidestory.com/services-solutions/datainsights/spotlight.html

These figures show that IE usage is on the decline,
personally I am suprised that so many organisations still allow IE to be 
used on their networks with all the security issues that it seems to have.
Get some of the major organisations to adopt Firefox or Mozilla and you 
will see those figures jump (or fall depending on what side of the fence 
you are on)

Good Luck

E.




Kev wrote:

> I was just on this site ...
>
> http://www.abr.gov.au/ABR_BC/
>
> ... to apply for an ABN. I can't do it because I don't use IE. This is 
> what I just sent to them.
>
> =======================================================================
> Sir/Madam
>
> I have tried, unsuccessfully, to access your site to apply for an ABN. 
> I'm sure it must fall dangerously close to a "restrictive trade 
> practice" to REQUIRE all businesses in Australia to use substandard, 
> buggy, virus and hacker-prone, insecure proprietary software to be 
> able to apply on-line for an ABN. I use both Linux and OS/2 and I use 
> a current Mozilla browser in both operating systems. Even if I did use 
> the afforementioned spyware magnet, I'd use Mozilla! When is this 
> extremely annoying bad programming practise planned to be rectified?
>
> Sincerely yours
> Kev Downes
> =======================================================================
>
> Perhaps others might join the bandwagon with me and aggitate for change.
>
> Cheers
> Kev
> =======================================================================
> Kev Downes
> kdownes at tpg.com.au ph 0404 7 0808 2
> Windows isn't the answer. Windows is the question. The answer is NO!
> I use, recommend and support OS/2 Warp and eComStation.
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