Korea Post Office Supports XPCOM Based E-Banking 144
Channy writes "Mozillazine is reporting that the Korean Post Office has decided to support Mozilla Firefox for internet banking and has started the developement project of an XPCOM based internet banking system. From the article: 'In past there were no web browsers for 128 bit encryption except Opera 3.5 for international users when Korea started internet banking services in 1998.'"
Support for Firefox???? (Score:3, Insightful)
My bank doesn't "support" firefox, but it works great.
who cares (Score:0, Insightful)
Re:Now (Score:5, Insightful)
This is no worse than saying that they should drop support for Safari because it's so sparsely used.
Re:Now (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:who cares (Score:3, Insightful)
Perhaps MS should include XPCOM in IE? There's nothing stopping them, really.
Re:who cares (Score:3, Insightful)
Anyone in Korea that cares about cross platform compatibility of their banking and other related applications.
Because as other posters and the article itself pointed out, the banking industry is already standardized on using SEED instead of SSL. Presumably changing that would be a tougher undertaking. Besides, XPCOM could work in any browser and any platform if a maker of that browser decided to support it - no Firefox or Mozilla suite are required.
OK, people out there definitely are.
Sure, but the advantage of "Cross Platform Component Object Model" is that it works "cross platform." As I mentioned earlier, this enables any maker of any browser on almost any platform to use XPCOM. You can't say the same for ActiveX, which is an MS proprietary extension.
No, it makes XPCOM "better."
Re:I can see it now! (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:This is suicide (Score:3, Insightful)
Many open standards begin life implemented by only one vendor. Even HTML, for that matter. ^_^
The point is that, when this SEED thing was developed, the Koreans couldn't make use of the already existing standards. So they pretty much had to design and then implement their own standard. It's good that they're adding implementations to multiple platforms.