[TriLUG] Good News - TurboTax for the Web and Linux

[John Matthews]

On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 14:16, Jeremy P wrote:
> 
> A few weeks ago, someone noticed that Intuit's Turbo Tax for the Web
> service was filtering out Linux browsers for unknown reasons, claiming
> that Linux just "wasn't supported." 
> 
> Apparently, they've changed their programming.  I am currently filling out
> my taxes online with their service; it no longer blocks me, using Netscape
> 4.77 for Linux.
> 
> So, it looks like Linux users' complaints DID have an effect!

Mozilla is still locked out, as is Netscape 6. I don't know much about
Konqueror but it didn't get anywhere either when I had it act like IE on
Windows 95.

This is crazy. Mozilla and Netscape 6 are *CROSS PLATFORM* and they
support Netscape 6 on Windows and MacOS. It seems they rely on Java,
which is also cross platform. There should be no issue with letting
non-Mac, non-Windows people in. It can only give them more users, not
fewer.

Frustrated,
matt

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