[Wylug-discuss] Natwest online banking

Gary Stainburn gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk
Fri Jan 16 10:02:01 GMT 2004


On Friday 16 Jan 2004 9:26 am, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 17:34, Mark Ruddell wrote:
> > FWIW, I used to have similar problems with the Co-Operative bank using
> > an MS-specific interface. I nagged a lot. Now it's changed and works
> > fine with Mozilla on Debian. I used to have an account with Tesco; I
> > nagged, they didn't listen so I closed it.
>
> Smile (also part of the co-op group) have a website which is strongly
> mozilla compatible (the major gripe I have is that uou cannot select
> text boxes with the mouse - you need to tab to them).  I did actually
> choose them on the basis of knowing other linux users that banked with
> them.
>
> I have previously heard that Barclays is browser agnostic.  My daughter
> has a Nationwide account - that appeared to work OK with mozilla,
> although as a child account the online interface is heavily restricted
> anyhow.  Of the credit cards Egg & Capital One both work well.
>
> There are a few items in the mozilla bugzilla (its a catagory on the
> lines of tech-evangelism) regarding smile - it could be worth checking
> there against other banks.
>
> There was also a very useful "Banks & Browsers" document:-
> 	http://www.starnix.com/banks-n-browsers.html
>
> However this now appears to be somewhat stale - updated in 2002.
>
> 	Nigel.

Just for the record, I've never had a problem with the Lloyds TSB site using
Mozilla. I think I've even managed it with Konqueror.
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