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Originally posted by whatthefunk View PostWebsites that only work with IE? Never come across that before. Any examples?
Both the examples that cause me hassles at the moment are payroll / personnel information systems. One of them is so archaic that it displays in a 1024x768 panel in the middle of my IE window, however big it is.
Wait - another one is the CRM system my current company uses.I'd rather be locked out than locked in.
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Was my last Windows OS. I deleted it and gave my entire HD to Kubuntu with Btrfs some time ago."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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Originally posted by life0riley View PostUnfortunately I'm starting to see more websites that only work with IE. I thought that was changing with the popularity of Firefox and Chrome."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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Originally posted by whatthefunk View PostWebsites that only work with IE? Never come across that before. Any examples?Originally posted by GreyGeek View PostI haven't seen that recently and my primary browser is Chromium. When I have encountered it I copied the source HTML to my HD and edited out all the gratuitous Windows dll calls sprinkled liberally throughout. Then the page displayed just fine from my HD. It's classic MS incompatibility in order to force noob Windows users to IE.
Originally I started noticing the issue sometime around the end of last year and the beginning of this year I had trouble accessing my back accounts, work HR website, and Health Care Spending Account. I couldn't get past certain menus and pages with Firefox, and some buttons just didn't work. It turned out my bank was doing maintenance on their website. My company has since done maintenance on their website, and they have switched the company that manages the Heatlh Care Spending Account. I tried all with Firefox again, the issue appears to be resolved now.
My bank blocks any browser except Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome. They have a published statement listing supported browsers and operating systems. Linux is not listed with the supported operating systems. They list Windows 7 and higher and MAC OS 10.X or higher as the only operating systems supported. This is BS because I have no issue accessing from Linux with Firefox.sigpic
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Actually we have internal software (purchased, not in house made) that was designed to only work with IE8 and it happens to work on IE9 thankfully. So there are items out there that do unfortunately. Said software even removed FireFox and Chrome capabilities in one of the updates so further tying us to IE9. Don't know about their newest whole number version release, but from what I read in release notes, only IE is supported. Shameful in my opinion.
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Originally posted by life0riley View PostMy bank blocks any browser except Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome. They have a published statement listing supported browsers and operating systems. Linux is not listed with the supported operating systems. They list Windows 7 and higher and MAC OS 10.X or higher as the only operating systems supported. This is BS because I have no issue accessing from Linux with Firefox.I'd rather be locked out than locked in.
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Originally posted by SecretCode View PostIn these cases I think it's not so much a case of "we've found it doesn't work with Linux | Safari | etc" but more "we can't be bothered to test changes to our site on more than 3 browsers or more than 2 OSes so we won't support it".sigpic
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Luckily the more universal browsers have a User Agent switch, either native or as a plug in.
For me it would be a damn good reason to switch banks, if they are not able to offer safe browsing (!=IE or MS) then they're not to be trusted with my money.
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You read articles like this and wonder:
(1) is MS stupid?
(2) is MS incompetent?
(3) is MS dishonest?
(4) is MS [manipulative, scamming, what]?
All the above? Not likely. But after all these years in business, they keep doing this sort of thing. And angering everyone.
But what is it with this company? Nowadays, any big company can hire excellent technical writers and copywriters to write copy for them. Why can't they write simply, clearly, in terms most living humans can read and understand? Isn't this frustrating? I'm not a Windows user, but we do maintain a laptop here using 8.1, to be upgraded to X at some point. The Windows update service is extremely confusing. The average user doesn't and won't have a clue what all this is about or how best to navigate through it.
http://www.howtogeek.com/241329/upgr...Speed=noscriptAn intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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I've been running Win 10 for over six months .... ON A VM! I hope never to actually install any Microsoft OS again, on real hardware. But I do enjoy picking up occasional beer money from friends and acquaintances with broken Windows systems, so I'm not actually against it.
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Originally posted by Qqmike View PostYou read articles like this and wonder:
(1) is MS stupid?
(2) is MS incompetent?
(3) is MS dishonest?
(4) is MS [manipulative, scamming, what]?
All the above? Not likely. But after all these years in business, they keep doing this sort of thing. And angering everyone.
But what is it with this company? Nowadays, any big company can hire excellent technical writers and copywriters to write copy for them. Why can't they write simply, clearly, in terms most living humans can read and understand? Isn't this frustrating? I'm not a Windows user, but we do maintain a laptop here using 8.1, to be upgraded to X at some point. The Windows update service is extremely confusing. The average user doesn't and won't have a clue what all this is about or how best to navigate through it.
http://www.howtogeek.com/241329/upgr...Speed=noscript
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