Is Canada Post discriminating against Linux?
Francois Ouellette
fouellet-cpI+UMyWUv9BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Sat Mar 26 18:31:45 UTC 2005
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 10:04:33 -0500, Francois Ouellette
> <fouellet-cpI+UMyWUv9BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Many web designers use only one tool and expect the world to be
>> compatible
>> with their little world instead of developing "real" applications that
>> can
>> accommodate most of what's out there. Also, since some of the stuff on
>> CP
>> site is about transactions and things that involve $$$ and tracking of
>> documents and they want to restrict the browsers to the few they know
>> will
>> work with the way they coded their pages.
>
> Disagree.
>
> I'm able to access TD CanadaTrust to do banking using Mozilla Firefox.
> I just checked it. If it's secure enough for TD CanadaTrust, it should
> be secure enough for Canada Post.
>
> More to the point, my bank is probably verifying that certain
> functionality is present on the browser that's being used to access
> the site, rather than just blindly saying "Only these operating
> systems and browsers are allowed." That striokes me as a more
> intelligent approach.
>
> Alex
This is exactly what I meant!
Improper specifications and/or lazy testing...
I access many sophisticated sites too, using Netscape or Firefox.
No problem either. Best approach is like you say: check first tell the
user if there is a problem. Do not unduly discriminate!
We should all complain to Canada Post.
François Ouellette
<fouellet-cpI+UMyWUv9BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
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