Dr. George Flanders wrote:
> I am an on-line instructor for Nevada State College, where the newest
> iteration of WebCT, called Vista, is being piloted. I am also a devoted
> Firefox user, but get the message from WebCT that my version of Firefox
> (1.5) is not an authorized browser. They recommend that I use (ugh) IE.
> Does anyone know how to modify Firefox 1.5 so it will work with WebCT
> Vista?

No clue, but have you tried spoofing the UA. The easiest way to do that
is with an extension. Prefbar adds a lot of one click functionality,
including UP spoofing:

http://prefbar.mozdev.org/

Lee

On 1/17/2006 1:26 PM Pacific, Dr. George Flanders wrote:
> I am an on-line instructor for Nevada State College, where the newest
> iteration of WebCT, called Vista, is being piloted. I am also a devoted
> Firefox user, but get the message from WebCT that my version of Firefox
> (1.5) is not an authorized browser. They recommend that I use (ugh) IE.
> Does anyone know how to modify Firefox 1.5 so it will work with WebCT Vista?
Can you supply a URI that we can check?

Irwin

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"Dr. George Flanders" wrote in
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> I am an on-line instructor for Nevada State College, where the
> newest iteration of WebCT, called Vista, is being piloted. I am
> also a devoted Firefox user, but get the message from WebCT that
> my version of Firefox (1.5) is not an authorized browser. They
> recommend that I use (ugh) IE. Does anyone know how to modify
> Firefox 1.5 so it will work with WebCT Vista?

You can use the extension User Agent Switcher to fool the webapp into
believing you are using IE.



I recommend /against/ doing that in this case, though. I have never
used a WebCT product, but I've used similar products from different
publishers. IME, if they've written the thing with IE in mind, you
won't get full functionality without using IE.

I assume they want your feedback in the pilot program; maybe you can
help convince them to support Firefox in future versions.

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On 17.01.2006 16:26 Dr. George Flanders spoke thusly:

> I am an on-line instructor for Nevada State College, where the newest
> iteration of WebCT, called Vista, is being piloted. I am also a devoted
> Firefox user, but get the message from WebCT that my version of Firefox
> (1.5) is not an authorized browser. They recommend that I use (ugh) IE.
> Does anyone know how to modify Firefox 1.5 so it will work with WebCT
> Vista?
Curious. Take a look at
http://www.webct.com/tuneup/viewpage...indows_firefox
which lists supported browsers for various versions of the WebCT
product. According to this list Vista 4.0 is supported by Moz 1.7 and
FF 1.0; Vista 3.0 also support both, but there is apparently a service
pack to be installed on the WebCT server.

Chris