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Ok so much fanfare and much ado about the latest little thing to happen with the
Facebook development people-Facebook Chat.(See Damien Mulley’s
post about it here) Well thats just great. Now I have to deal with several chat programes such as
MSN, Google Chat and now Facebook IM. Bah! However there is one slight sigh of relief I have about Facebook chat-It will not work on
HEA computers who have IE 6 installed on them, which the vast majority of UCD’s computers appear to have. Happy Days in one way; Means I might actually get some work done on College computers.
I am curious though, if Facebook chat is only developed for
IE7 or
Firefox or Safari or
Flock, why not for
IE6. Perhaps it can be summed up in a neat little sentence about IE6 and
how shite it was/is Security Wise.
SO if this is the case then with regards the serious Security flaws etc and it is being used in HEA institutions still; How vulnerable are HEA institutions when it continues to use IE 6? IE 6 was pretty much obsolete the moment IE 7 was released in October 2006. It is now May 2008 and IE6 is still in use in this particular institution. I wonder how many more are the same?
Regardless, I have just recently discovered that I can use Firefox via my USB key, using Portable Apps, I will have solved my problem of not being able to use Facebook Chat in IE6 before it has made any impact on my Addiction for Internet usage! 
. Doesn’t solve the problem of Internet security within IE6 though in UCD. Works great though for keeping those pesky students off social networking sites.
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DeeCode
April 27, 2008
Microsoft angers me too. IE6 has the worst rendering engine of all internet browsers. Triton is a joke. And security features are more annoying than protecting. They’re abusing the monopoly that they have, and really ought to be taken out of the market.
whoneeLoomi
April 11, 2009
FANTASTIC!