We have both Firefox and IE on the desktop. Firefox is the default and can easily be locked down. We use it for the cool plugins we can add (too many to list here) Now that we are exploring SVG, I might add Opera to the mix as this does a good job of rendering SVG files that my students can program. <br>
<br>I am also not entirely sure what your technician means. It is just a web browser and window to the outside world, not a roller-coaster ride through the pits of oblivion. :-)<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2008/12/4 Phillip Pike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pikep@bmg.vic.edu.au">pikep@bmg.vic.edu.au</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">One of our staff has tried Google docs for
some collaborative work, but when the students open the doc, they only see a
small window on the browser. I also logged on and had the same experience. We
are using IE6 on our computers.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">When I tried it on my machine using
Firefox 3, I had no problem.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">I asked our network admin to install
Firefox, but he claims there is a security issue with not being able to lock
down the internet settings in firefox.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Has anyone else had an issue with Google
docs?</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Does anyone know about the security issue
with Firefox?</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Phil Pike</span></font></p>
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