On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:41:06 +0000, JoeSpareBedroom wrote:


I've spent plenty of time accessing the web from a friend's Linux machine. I
didn't have any problems with perhaps 20-30 sites.

LOL, you, my friend, have fallen victim to MS's "embrace and extend". If
the site was W3C compliant, it would have rendered perfectly, as all Linux
browsers as far as I know, are W3C compliant. The problem lies with
Windows, as several lawsuits have shown. They will "embrace" an new
technology, say Java, "extend" it my adding some BS extension using their
monopoly to leverage against a defined universal standards, rendering it
less than universal. But hey, not to worry, the vulnerabilities are only
a minimal inconvenience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace...and_extinguish