| security issues : Opera, Mozilla
worse than I.E. 5? |
benihana
msg:1585006 | 8:40 am on Mar 30, 2004 (gmt 0) |
i use opera constantly, and i love it.
but i hate when big sites lock me out, and tell me to upgrade to i.e. 5. so this time i ranted at the webmaster. i got a very polite response basically saying that they dont support opera or moz because of security and usability issues, and suggesting i co-install I.E. (thanks to dr doc et al i have three versions of i.e., i just dont like them:)) I was under the impression that recent versions of these opera and moz were more secure than i.e. - is this not so? thanks
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Sinner_G
msg:1585007 | 8:48 am on Mar 30, 2004 (gmt 0) |
IMHO, the webmaster was just saying security hoping you'd have no clue and would just believe him. Usability issues is another pair of shoes. I guess that site was done for IE, using IE "features" (in other words bugs). As for Opera and Moz being more secure, I wouldn't say that. Thing is, less people are using it, so hackers concentrate on IE.
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benihana
msg:1585008 | 8:56 am on Mar 30, 2004 (gmt 0) |
thanks sinner_G. i might just play slightly dumb and ask for a little more info. this is a huge uk company, and i imagine their web budget will be pretty big, so a little pressure cant hurt. cheers
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grahamstewart
msg:1585009 | 10:04 am on Mar 30, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Opera has an OpenWeb campaign [my.opera.com] to 'out' websites that try and force you to use IE. See also their article on Opera and Security [my.opera.com] where they claim that "Opera has been named the most secure browser available".
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benihana
msg:1585010 | 10:19 am on Mar 30, 2004 (gmt 0) |
lovely. cheers grahamstewart
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benihana
msg:1585011 | 9:24 pm on Mar 31, 2004 (gmt 0) |
update: [webmasterworld.com...]
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