By Robert Lemos
Published: Thursday 16 September 2004
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Name
Richard
Location
UK
Occupation
Firefox User
Comment
Firefox is great but some UK Govt. sites still work only with MS Internet Explorer.
Learndirect.co.uk, the UK government funded organisation offering on-line training seems wedded to Microsoft and to providing training only on Microsoft products.
My recent LearnDirect courses which were delivered by NetG running on JAVA would only work with MS Internet Explorer. When I tried to use Firefox or Netscape 7.2, the courses ignored vital keys on my PC's keyboard and other features failed.
LearnDirect claims that their customers only want or use Microsoft products, and apparently have the latest (consumer) versions running on high-spec PCs!
Strangely, these courses were set and fixed for a screen resolution of 800 x 600, so appeared very small on a normal modern display. The active part of the courses appeared to occupy about 640 x 480, so appeared even smaller.
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