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DJGM wrote:Your school still uses IE5.01?!? A browser from the last century?!? Are your school's network admin staff really that clueless?

No they're both very clever, they've tried to install 5.5 or 6 and it won't work due to the RM filth that infects the network which the council forces upon us.

That's why the nice people in the school (aka them two, the Higher Computing class and the IT guy's daughter) get to use Firefox instead.

I think the plan is to eventually put it over the whole network once they get a chance to play with it and lock down the settings to stop the morons in the lower years from fiddling with stuff.

So basically, it's the clueless beancounters at the council rather than clueless IT admin staff . . . that figures!
At least the IT staff at your school are prepared to put something decent on the PC's as soon as they can.

This will be of interest to any Internet Explorer users who may wish to try FireFox yet retain the familiar look and feel of Internet Explorer.

See this: -> http://www.firefoxie.net <- has all the extensions you need to make FireFox look like Internet Explorer (with variations), including plug-ins to edit the skin files and also the IE skin itself.

Case example:


Internet Explorer 6


Firefox 1.0 - with IE skin from above site and a bit of extra customisation on my part.

Not a lot of difference. Worth trying though - can always get rid of it later.

anybody know any good sites for themes? the ones that are available from the mozilla site itself are a bit poo, and those on mozdev are all out of date.

they are a bit poo aren't they.

Sadly the best theme site has now been disolved as firefox help moved onto mozilla.org

Hopefully Mozilla Update will be improved in time.

If anyone is thinking of downloading Mozilla Firefox (or already has), there is an en-GB "translated" version available:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/f ... %201.0.exe

Whats the dif between US and UK ver's then?

one would presume things like color - colour and the locale being set as en-GB isntead of en-US.

I'm going to have a play with it now actually. I'll telly ou the difference in 10 mins

yep that's about it really. they haven't updated the help pages to "Colour" either.

It looks wrong for some reason when it's spelt correctly on a button.

Hmm...I'm a fan of Firefox but it seems disable-output-escaping="yes" in the XSL document for XML elements doesn't work. In IE, a XML page such as:

<root>
<text>Hello this is in <b>bold</b></text>
</root>

Would output with "bold" in bold. In Firefox, it annoyingly outputs as <b>bold</b>, causing a bit of a headache...

Anyone know a solution or a decent XML discussion site/forum to probe them...?

Asa

The Web Dev/Standards board on MozillaZine is usually quite a good place for questions. I don't really understand XML/XSL myself so I'm just not going to guess.