Re: [SLUG] MSN Gaming Zone

From: Bpreece (bpreece1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 02:37:47 EST


You forget though they have active x and direct x to be required to play
these games.
it just is not the browser.

Also flipside.com and iwon and hyle.com will not run games under linux
either.

>> Is it possible to play at MSN Gaming Zone
>> <www.zone.com> with any browser in
>> Linux?
>>
>
>Sorry, but M$ has blocked all non-IE browsers from all
>of their websites. Unless you have IE, you can't get
>into any of their sites. As far as I know, there is
>not any version of IE for Linux, though it is
>runmmored that IE 5 will run under Wine. Mind you, all
>the sites have all the capabilities to be viewed by
>non IE browsers (this is why that entire W3C thing is
>arround, to block that kind of crap from happening -
>but I guess all the rules change when you're a
>monopoly and the Gov't refuses to break you up).
>
>Gnorb
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