banks 'n' browser revisited: The sorry tale of HSBC Canada

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:33:10AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> I use President's Choice and (the last time that I checked) their website 
> forces me to pretend that I was using IE.  This is really irritating.
 
I haven't had any trouble with PC for a long time using mozilla or
opera.  I currently just use mozilla-firefox which works fine for
everything I do there.  I think konqueror might balk at the login for
some reason, but then again what doesn't it mess up.

> Rather than trying another email exchange with them I think it would be a good 
> idea to resurrect a list/site such as Evan put together.  Perhaps expand it 
> to allow much more detail.
> 
> I'm not sure that Evan has the time (Evan?) but I'd be willing to put some 
> time into it.  banksthatsuck.ca is available :-)
> 
> Have you found any reason for their browser check, use of activex would 
> eliminate Linux as a viable platformfor example.

So does use of flash.

> A belated happy earth day to you too, I look forward to the trees that I 
> planted being 30 metres tall.

Lennart Sorensen
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