[ILUG] Internet Business Banking and IE6 on Linux

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Fri Oct 15 17:39:24 IST 2004


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Stephen Brooks writes:
> John Madden wrote:
> > On (15/10/04 11:18), Michele Neylon:: Blacknight Solutions didst pronounce:
> > 
> >>>On MS boxes IE6 runs fine with Sun Java, haven't tried it
> >>>using  wine or C.O.O. on Linux, since I switched to Firefox.
> >>
> >>You need MS JAVA to use AIB business banking. It will NOT work with SUN.
> >>
> > 
> > Shouldn't this be the kind of thing that takes business from AIB?
> > 
> > I use BOI 365-online a good bit, and I've never had any problems with it
> > (Debian / Firefox). Should we try and get a formal request together from
> > ILUG to send to AIB requesting that they make their online banking more
> > cross browser and platform compatible? Could we get a list of ILUG
> > members who use / want to use AIB online banking, but who have to use
> > Windows + IE / cannot (due to not using Windows + IE) use it?
> 
> 	The problem is with _business_ banking online only and how it 
> authenticates the user.  The Joe Public version just requires you to 
> answer some pre-asked/answered questions for auth.

Worth noting that *that* site is a triumph of cross-browser compatibility;
I've been using it for years without trouble from a variety of linux
browsers.

- --j.
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