From kde-promo Sat Dec 08 16:01:46 2001 From: Oliver Strutynski Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 16:01:46 +0000 To: kde-promo Subject: [kde-promo] Konqueror Online Banking X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=100782739314312 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, with Konqueror being a really great and stable browser, one should expect most banking sites to function correctly. Unfortunately that is not the case: A number of banking services simply block all browsers except for Netscape and MSIE (ok, sometimes faking UA string helps, but shouldn't they be accessible for all browsers), others use some strange java applets that don't work within Konqueror. I started setting up a list of online banking services at http://home.in.tum.de/strutyns/banking (could be moved to konqueror.org later on) to gather and provide information about Konqueror's interaction with various banks. It is the purpose of that page to 1) be useful for Konqueror users: they can easily check, whether they can access their accounts online using Konqueror and possibly find work-arounds to access some of the sited, that don't work straight out of the box 2) kind of pillory the banks that discriminate users based on the browser they use. While Konqueror's market share is still relatively small, companies might want to avoid the bad pr they might get from preventing Konqueror users to use their services, especially if their direct competitors allow Konqueror users to access their online banking sites. It is not possible for me to collect all that information, especially since a lot of banks do not provide demo accounts, making it impossible to test their sites. If you think such a page might prove useful, please drop me a line if you use Konqueror to access your banks online service or if you know of a bank's web site that works/does not work with Konqueror please drop me a line, so that I can update the summary page. Thanks for your help, Oliver - -- _____________________________________________________________________ Oliver Strutynski oliver.strutynski@cs.tum.edu olistrut@gmx.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8EjlquUAlUEFqtKYRAn+WAKDqJjrIKtnogsPwY5zu3v4PVe4wkACgzsAu 9x3jQ7W1mKvaCtxbhVMe4R4= =3hE5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.