Re: TurboTax - Linux?

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hack it from OS X


On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:06:21 -0500, Temlakos <temlakos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:59:28PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >
> >>Yeah; I've done this for several years under Linux, and am pretty happy with
> >>it. Downside is Intuit stores all of your private data on their servers;
> >>upside is kinda the same thing, since it's all very easy the next year since
> >>they can prefill anything that hasn't changed.
> >
> >
> > Doh! This year, turbotax for the web gives me the dreaded:
> >
> >   TurboTax for the Web does not work with the Web browser you are using. You
> >   must use one of the following supported browsers:
> >
> >   Windows®
> >
> >     Windows XP         Internet Explorer® 6.0, Netscape® 7.x, AOL® 7.0
> >                         or higher
> >     Windows 2000/98/Me Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, Netscape 7.x, AOL
> >                         7.0 or higher
> >     Windows NT®        Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, AOL 7.0 or higher
> >
> >   Mac OS®
> >
> >      Mac OS 9.0 or higher   Safari 1.x, AOL for Mac OS X
> >
> 
> That's probably because TurboTax for the Web is written in MS Active
> Server Pages or J-Script Pages or some proprietary mess like that.
> Intuit needs to write things in Java, and otherwise stick to
> W3C-compliant code. Until they do--well, I suppose we'll have to learn
> how to run IE5 on WINE--if we can /get/ IE5 separate and apart from Windows.
> 
> Temlakos
> 
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