[OT] Re: [Zope] External Editor problem

Dennis Allison allison at sumeru.stanford.EDU
Sat Jul 10 17:49:56 EDT 2004


That's not the problem...  it's the fonts and the look.  IE does a
somewhat better job of layout.  And it supports non-standard stuff 
which people use...  )-:

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Bill Campbell wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 10, 2004, Dennis Allison wrote:
> >I have, but to no avail.  IE is what most of our installed base uses and 
> >so all our rendering is biased towards IE.  
> 
> I've had good results by showing people how tabs work in Mozilla,
> Opera, etc.,
> 
> >On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Jul 10, 2004, Dennis Allison wrote:
> >> >I've been using version 0.6 and will upgrade to 0.7.2 shortly.  Let me
> >> >know if you've already encountered this and fixed it.
> >> >
> >> >Some of my users insist on using WindowsXP Home and IE. The external
> >> >editor fails.  Running the helper application standalone works fine.
> >> >Runing Firefox as the browser works fine after a bit of fancy twostepping
> >> >to get it configured.
> >> 
> >> You might give these Internet Exploder users a dose of reality.  I've
> >> referenced several recent notices on IE recently:
> >> 
> >> http://www.celestial.com/Security/Windows/News_Item.2004-06-30.2399900668
> >> 
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