Oh and is anyone running the Blackdown J2RE (the j2re1.4 package)
instead of Sun's? If so it would be interesting to see if that works
or not...
CK
On 5/13/06, Conrad Knauer <atheoi@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
>
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