[Pmwiki-users] a plea to all custom skin makers

Tom Holroyd tomh
Sat Jan 15 13:49:09 CST 2005


> > Many would argue that this is an IE 6 problem, and I agree.
> > But telling that to my clients working in government agencies
> > where the IT department has locked down all of the PCs,
> > preventing the installation of even so much as a browser
> > plugin doesn't do me any good.

No, really, tell them to stop using IE.  They need to complain to
their IT people.  Until the problems in IE are fixed, which won't
be for a LONG time, they should not use it, period.  Any IT
person worth his salt should recognize that IE is part of their
problems, and forcing people to use it is just going to create
more work in the long run, from viruses, worms, trojans and
buffer overflows, not to mention beautiful websites that can't be
rendered properly.  Installing Firefox or something, and deleting
the IE icon from the desktop, will automatically get rid of a
huge hole in their infrastructure.  In two years as a sysadmin,
I've had one machine completely trashed, and two others infected
with worms (one had to be taken back to the IT dept. and
reformatted there!), simply because the users were using stock MS
installs, and downloading things with IE.  Since I forced (by
policy, of course) all my users to browse with Firefox, I have
had zero (0) problems.  And my website looks good, too (well, I 
didn't pick the colors, but that's a different story).  :-)




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