There is a 'proper' way to fix this. Instead of changing banks, give them a reason for thinking that you should change banks.

Let them know so that they can tell their IT guy that he shouldn't be sitting on his arse and using crap technology (let's face it, that's what IE specific code is) and use standards.

Let them know that when they use normal web standards, they will be able to instantly support mobile banking, and a more universal online experience, and probably get rid of possible security problems as well.

Security is the big kicker.

The sad thing is, one of the companies that I do my credit card through will NOT display in Linux / Firefox (I refuse to log into windows to do any online banking.)

The way around it.... DISABLE FLASH! I have Flashblock installed, and it then just makes certain sections of the page have the play button. If I don't have flashblock enabled, I get the normal page as it's loading, but if it gets to finish, it ends up blank. I can only think that somewhere on the page it tries to do some weird overlay that firefox in Linux won't allow (I haven't tested the Windows version of Firefox for the above reason.)

Sorry for such a long rant, but recently a friend of mine said that he NEEDED IE on his computer because some page he needed for his part time job was written using ActiveX. WTF, seriously people, in this day and age people are still using this security hole? Especially for information like SSN and birthdates and credit scores, etc.

The more people you can get to complain that a website is using old crappy non-standard web technology the better.

The company that has that funky page I was talking about did allow me to contact their IT. They said they'd work on it. At one point it looked like they had fixed it... but then it reverted. I'd keep trying, though Flashblock is a nice work around.

Microsoft should be punished for all the legacy IE specific crap that is out there, as should all the lazy web developers who refuse to change it.

slaapliedje

P.S. Oh, and for the original topic. No, IE6 will not run on the N900, unless you can magically get WIndows 9x to run (I can't recall, it may require at least Windows 98. I don't think you can run it in NT4, or if NT4 would even run on the N900 through bochs, dosbox, whatever.)