Re: The Census now *officially* works with Linux! ;)

I've been testing the site in Ubuntu (with Sun's Java) to determine
what a "valid browser" is, as they haven't updated their "Computer
requirements and settings" page, though based on it, it would be
reasonable to expect Firefox and Mozilla to work.... and they do :)
But it seems that any Gecko-based browser will work as Epiphany (as
Scott noted) and Galeon also work.

Opera can't seem to find Java on my system (even though I enabled it
under "Quick Preferences"; F12) so it couldn't even get far enough to
be rejected ;)

Konqueror is rejected.

Old browsers (Amaya, Chimera and Dillo) are rejected.

Lynx is a pain to navigate and so I gave up before figuring out how to
press "Start" :P

CK

On 5/13/06, Conrad Knauer <atheoi@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www12.statcan.ca/IRC/english/advisory_e.htm
>
> ---
> The census online application now accessible to Linux operating system
>
> In response to demand, Statistics Canada has removed the restriction
> for Linux. This change takes effect May 13th, 2006.
>
> This broadened access to open-source users is available to those who
> have a valid browser and JVM. These minimum requirements are necessary
> in order to maintain the same level of data encryption with Public Key
> Infrastructure (PKI).
>
> With the addition of this new operating system, the capacity of the
> Census Help Line operators to respond to technical calls from open
> source users may be limited. However, we expect this will not be a
> major obstacle for the vast majority of these users.
> ---
>
> Not sure what they mean exactly by the second-to-last sentence, but I
> tested the site and Firefox on Linux now passes with flying colors :)
>
> CK
>
Received on Sat May 13 20:23:03 2006