Paul Johnson wrote:
Why not treat the problem, not the symptoms, and insist on only visiting
websites that respect your choice of software in the first place, and/or
let companies that don't know why you won't be doing business with them
again or anytime in the forseeable future.
I agree with you Paul, and intend to raise the matter with the company
when I return to Canada. All they need to do is ensure that their site
conforms with the W3C standard. (Because MSIE does not completely
conform to the W3C standard, people who don't know any better than to
use MSIE would probably have problems. If so, the solution is to tell
them to switch to Firefox.)
As for boycotting companies which basically test their sites only on
MSIE, I would like to boycott them. However, this particular insurance
company underwrites the largest group health plan in Canada, covering
all employees of the federal government and their dependents, the
Canadian Coast Guard and RCMP members and their dependents, dependents
of all military personnel, and all pensioners from the foregoing
services, over 300,000 people. I could not get elsewhere the same
coverage for anything like the price. So we will have to put up with
dealing with the symptoms instead of the problem for some time yet.
Ken Heard
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