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- thatkidrich44, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5OK here is the deal.. I DO work for NASA.. at Headquarters.. The whole Firefox thing goes like this.. they are not abandoning IE.. they are just adding Firefox to the core load of software.. and prefer that use use Firefox.
- orabox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Can't digg a "A little birdie" i need more supporting information, I have found nothing on google after a few searches. It would be a good move for nasa at least for now.
- Aooogah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Deuterium: It was Lockheed that screwed that up not NASA. The orbiter was a joint project between JPL, Raytheon, and Lockheed. JPL and Raytheon used Metric, Lockheed used Imperial. Big boom.
Anyway, back on topic: I'm sure Microsoft will make a generous donation to NASA and they'll be back to using IE soon. - iFindout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If NASA did actually ditch IE for a better browser, then, Welcome to the 21st century NASA.
- motorbikematt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've been following this story and I have to say that I really find this difficult to believe.
First off, NASA has no real standard for computer usage. For workstations there are TONS of Apples depending on the Center (but more than an average gov't agency), but also a ton of Dells, and very few linux boxes. The network, again, depending on the center, and the contractor, is a mix of Unixes and Linuxes, but lots of Windows too.
For NASA to make something as stupid as a Browser choice "Standard", I don't know, there's no proof yet, but perhaps in the morning we'll hear something...so still No Digg, yet. It wouldn't surprise me, but there is so much more crap going on with NASA that this is the LEAST of their worries. - wallclimber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I visited the http://www.nasa.gov/ web site using FF and found no such prompts. Visited it using IE and got a black, blank page with these words across the top:
"The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. For instructions, click here [I clicked there and was taken here] "Instructions for enabling JavaScript in Various Browsers is provided below."
I also visited their "Privacy, Accessibility & Translation Capabilities" page and found absolutely nothing pertaining to the use (or not) of any specific browser. I'm thinkin' something's wrong with this headline...might need to withhold any diggs. - mark_1581, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Now every time you go to a page using IE, you get up to three prompts telling you how risky it is to run scripts." Is this using IE inside NASA or when browsing their website? Just for the hell of it I tried browsing their site in IE and saw no security prompts.
I am a Firefox user BTW. - karenin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Get off your soapbox and start coding if you want a revolution. I've got about 300 apps under my control and not a damn one of them support FF and most wont even run with i
That's nice for you - not so nice for your users.
Forcing your users to use an insecure solution which locks them in to one platform is not smart. Hopefully people will vote with their feet and stop choosing solutions that lock them into any one platform/program, at which point you will have a painful readjustment to make.
The point of a web app is that it's cross platform and the clients can be using ANY OS. Your programs may as well run as Windows binaries, why bother restricting them to the web browser at all?
oh, and finally, maybe all their apps already do support FF because they weren't dumb enough to code to one single browser? I doubt they'd have made this step if that wasn't the case. - Handcannons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1**************
What are yall talkin about? I am able to see in both browsers...i dont get the Java thing message when i click the link...is that good or bad?
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Javascript is enabled by default in both browsers, no errors just means it hasn't been disabled and you still have javascript enabled in both browsers. Disable javascript and you'll see the message. - motorbikematt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Um...
I work at NASA-KSC, and though they're getting rid of us in Life Sciences, there has been not one peep about browsers at all. Sure, the right hand doesn't ever know what the left hand is doing...but I am very skeptical about this...
No digg, yet... - bonzooznob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0**INTERNAL** folks... for all those moaning that they can see the site fine in IE, RTFA.
"...employee of NASA, every time you go to a page using IE..."
Now, facts or no facts, this brings up a hidden little "not so loudly spoken" truth, that lots of Companies are encouraging non-IE browser use.
Which isn't surprising, since every day, I recommend Firefox, or Opera over IE.
Better security, printing, bookmarks, updates, tabs, css, standards, features, portability, extensions, developer tools, popup blocking, searching, etc. - diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm glad, firefox is a much better web browser.
- TRUEPATRIOT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@mfearby
if you go to your user page you can undigg stories - mike6496, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No facts = no digg .. maybe even report it as "lame"...
- imagic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Must have like the new version
- callumj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love this idea, will help Firefox boost the market share.
- h2d2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0***** rumor... it's not true!
- WraithFX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0a fake.
- vdub12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dose anyone have a creditable source on this I am not going to trust blogs. Most of the time i think they make stuff up just to get posted places.
- orabox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No credible source yet.
- janascii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Maybe this will convince people that microsoft isn't the only thing out there.
- sarith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0that's fricken' awesome.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0+ digg
This is about the best digg ever. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0NASA was running Linux ages ago....
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nasa+linux&btnG=Google+Search - h2d2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Read comment on TFA:
This is being posted from the NASA Johnson Space Center.
This machine is running IE version 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519.
No warnings have been displayed about scripts. - solowCX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is for NASA the organization, not NASA's website. So basically if you are a rocket scientist working for NASA you have to use Firefox.
- dbavaria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Works fine with IE...
Until there is a press release from NASA I won't even hear the story. This is like digging a story titled "OPRAH USES FIREFOX!" - Albertpacino, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Asa Dotzler is blogging about this too - http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2005/12/go_nasa_1.html
For those of you who dont know who Asa is - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Dotzler - Kitchensink108, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0sounds good, but i'm with orabox on this one.
- Axord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Some of you people seem confused: this is about what their employees need no use, not about forcing the general public to use anything.
- mfearby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@truepatriot, thanks... You are a true patriot :-)
- geeksys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0no digg i had no prompts it worked fine in either browser, we need credibility here
- RogueJediX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's cool. I can only hope more people realise that IE is bad, just bad. Get Firefox, get Opera, but for the love of humanity, stay away from IE!
- mancat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There are so many US government sites that only work correctly with IE. There is no way they can "dump" IE until those are rewritten.
- MightyGiant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Another ***** firefox digg. Does anyone read the news posts? This is from some blog. And it doesn't say anything about them switching to Firefox. When will this flame fest end!?!
- matx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hurray for firefox
- bubba9999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was wondering when the 2 Opera users would show up.
- motorbikematt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yep. Bogus.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28149 - noodleNT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There are ZERO facts to this. Stop digging!
- orabox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I would have to go with twylight on this one
There are so many business applications that have been developed exclusively for IE. Yes that was wrong kind of but that is business. Business intranets are unlike the internet, I still have to use IE for some things at work but 95% can be done with another browser. I bet NASA still needs some IE browsers even if they truly are pushing away. - cornfused, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Firefox + NoScript extension FTW
- bem1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0NO DIGG!
- embraceware, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize FireFox is better than IE. But it's cool that they know :)
- motorbikematt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, I just logged into the Internal KSC website and no scripts, warning, or stuff. Everything works fine.
From my point of view, this is a rumor by some hyperactive FFanboys. Don't get me wrong, I use Firefox with Adblock & Greasemonkey, but this story is at the very least, a gross distortion of the truth.
NO DIGG. - h2d2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Maxthon all the way...
http://www.maxthon.com/ - Roamin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Amanda at Rocketboom says it's not true.
NO DIGG - generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I couldn't care less what NASA does cuz they have one of them ***** sites that auto redirect as soon as you hit the site so yer back button wont function proper It will just redirect again. I don't go on their site because of that.
- ConorKiley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As more and more people find this that "Digg it" button becomes the problem.
People click it thinking it might be a method of responding. - mfearby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why, oh why, did I waste a digg on this before actually reading the "article". I wish I could take my digg back because this is just lame. No sources, AND the page loads just fine in IE.
- emerson42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm currently logged in from JSC and I can tell you, this isn't the case. They do install an old version of Firefox (1.0.6) on the computers, but that is all. There is no default, and some things still work best with IE because of proprietary crappy scripting.
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