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Subject:    [kde-promo] Konqueror Online Banking
From:       Oliver Strutynski <olistrut () gmx ! net>
Date:       2001-12-08 16:01:46
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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


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 Oliver Strutynski                      oliver.strutynski@cs.tum.edu
                                                    olistrut@gmx.net
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