A new conspiracy?

[SSSnail]

Is it me or less and less proper websites support Firefox nowaday? For instance, Morgan Stanley, one of their customers site is only supported in IE, if you use Firefox, you're pretty much SOL.

I talked to their techs and they even told me that it's only supported in IE. Is this Bill's new plan to dominate the world? again...

Just a thought.

 

[sixone]

It's because companies don't want to allocate programming resources to supporting a program that's not as widely used. If there was more demand for it, they'd step up.

 

[xanis]

IE has been around for a LONG time and most websites are coded for IE, not Firefox. I would imagine that some websites (Morgan Stanley for example) was coded for IE, and recoding the entire site to support firefox would be costly and time-consuming. Also, I would be willing to bet that just almost their entire client base uses IE, and they really don't have the deisre to go change the site for a few Firefox users.Hardly a conspiracy.

 

[imported_Baloo]

The real concern here is not the age of IE, which originated on the same code netscape, mozilla, and firefox evolved from - mosaic. It's that the sites do not adhere to internet standards that is the issue, and instead use proprietary MS features(i.e.Active X). The fact is Firefox is much older than IE.