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[FYI] Ja, so kanns einem gehen, wenn man ... [MS-built UK 'Government Gateway' locks out non-MS browsers]
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- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 23:24:11 +0200
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19239.html
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MS-built UK 'Government Gateway' locks out non-MS browsers
By John Lettice
Posted: 28/05/2001 at 15:49 GMT
Predictably, Microsoft's 'help' in turning "Britain's e-government
vision into a reality" has mysteriously turned into a lockout for
users of anything other than IE on Windows. Linux, Netscape and Mac
(even with IE, friends...) can look but not touch, because the
digital certificate system selected by the developers mysteriously
always seems to lead to IE 5.01 or above on Windows.
The developer is, ahem, Microsoft, and the site in question,
gateway.gov.uk, is intended to be the portal that acts as "the
centralised registration service for all e-Government services in the
United Kingdom."
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