the user is blamed by default...
30 Aug 2009 - 6:42pm
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Mark Schraad
2006
Just ran across one of my pet peeves. Putting the user at blame when
they are not. I was trying to log on to manage some of our benefits.
I use macs... we both do. Not a windows machine here. I used
Safari... then tried Firefox (both up to date). I got this error
message:
>>>>
Obsolete Browser
In order to access our online system, we require the use of Microsoft
Internet Explorer (version 4 or better) or Netscape Communicator
(version 4 or better)
Please use one of the following links to download the latest
production version of either browser.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Netscape Navigator
>>>>
To add insult to injury (or is it the other way around) both links
are bad!
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I don't think this is a User issue, it's really a maintenance budget
issue - perhaps yet another site that was built and let out into the
wild with no on-going maintenance budget to keep up with the time :-(
.
Strange that Firefox didn't work as in the early days of Firefox 1.0
and 1.5 I think it used to spoof servers saying it was IE. I suppose
that is no longer done or necessary?
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Posted from the new ixda.org
http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45199
Another chapter in the book "Browser sniffing considered retarded"
;-)
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Posted from the new ixda.org
http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45199