<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Interesting!<br><br>I use Ubuntu 9.04 and went to that link. I had no issue browsing it and tested the download. I got as far as inputting my library card number (of which I don't have). I went to your other link and browsed it fine, but couldn't fine a link to downloads.<br><br>I would check your version of flash first. I had previous installed flasyplugin-nonfree and my access to websites improved.<br><br>Kind regards!<br>Abi<br><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Terrence Enger <tenger@iseries-guru.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sat, October 24, 2009 9:37:17 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [TLUG]: gov't sponsored site requires proprietary software<br></font><br>Greetings,<br><br>The Ontario Ministry of Culture is sponsoring Ontario Library<br>Service Download Centre <<a href="http://downloadcentre.library.on.ca/" target="_blank">http://downloadcentre.library.on.ca/</a>>,<br>which lends out any of a collection of audio books over the net.<br><br>Disappointingly, the service works only only with Windows or Mac.<br>It is perhaps no coincidence that the "guided tour" requires<br>Adobe Flash, and they use the word "free" only in the<br>sense "gratis".<br><br><aside><br> Hmm. Going to the Ministry of Culture home page<br> <<a href="http://www.culture.gov.on.ca/english/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.culture.gov.on.ca/english/index.html</a>>, the
first<br> thing I see is a message box telling me "Content on this page<br> requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player. Do you want to<br> download it now?". Somewhat peeved now, I take that url to<br> validator.w3.org and find--really, I should not have been<br> surprised--203 Errors, 62 warning(s).<br></aside><br><br>Time for a letter to your MPP, do you think?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Terry.<br><br><br>--<br>The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: <a href="http://gtalug.org/" target="_blank">http://gtalug.org/</a><br>TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns<br>How to UNSUBSCRIBE: <a href="http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists" target="_blank">http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists</a><br></div></div></div><br>
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