I spend a few hours today trying to get Scalix to work right…

I managed to be able to loginto the admin console at the end, yay!

Still: it seems that it’s pretty much unusable except by Outlook (maybe, I havn’t tried that).

The reason is simple: they don’t let me log into the web mail. With none of my browsers. Because they havn’t understood what ‘Gecko’ is.

For tech people (apparently the Scalix people don’t fall into this category), Gecko is the ‘rendering engine’ inside Firefox, Mozilla and a few others.

With ‘others’ including the trademark-unencumbered Iceweasel fork of Firefox, or the Gnome webbrowsers “Epiphany” and “Galeon”. Which are not “supported” by Scalix (do you happen to actually know what you are supporting? Did you develop for the Gecko rendering engine or for the Firefox UI?).

Other people in the “I’m a web 2.0 company, but I don’t know my stuff” hall-of-shame include the huge german email provider GMX. Their new webmail ‘preview’ is also only enabled if you claim to be using Firefox or Internet Exploder. They neither have understood why all Mozilla browsers include the Gecko id…