Still there are lot of websites are designed by considering the Internet explorer as a only browser. I think Indian Railway website has same issue.I think Apple need to more aggressive on this part. Popularity of Safari on windows may help also.
Gaurav On 23-July-2010, at 1:58 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi ankur, > > It is indeed a shame that mac users are left out. I bank with syndicate bank > and have never had issues logging in. www.syndicatebank.in . And state bank > of india is indeed the biggest bank in the country. Hope they take this > message seriously and make amends to their website. > > Regards, > Vinit > Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone Essar > > From: Mind Management™ <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:48:05 +0530 > To: <[email protected]> > ReplyTo: [email protected] > Subject: [imug-users] Internet Banking and Discrimination against Macintosh > Users :-( > > OF INTEREST TO ALL MAC-USERS WHO ARE LIMITED BY SEVERAL PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS > BEING WINDOWS DEPENDENT > > I find it extremely difficult to understand why one of the world's largest > banking institution does not have an internet banking site which is > technically savvy in all the popular browsers as well as the popular > operating systems like Windows, linux and Macintosh. > > For the past 3-4 days I had been unsuccessfully attempting to access > www.onlinesbi.com to activate my internet banking account but kept on failing > since the website itself was not opening, nor was there any alert message > mentioning the restrictions or requirements in terms of the operating system. > I kept on attributing it to internet access problems. > > I used the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, Explorer, Flock, Safari, > Opera, Mozilla, Camino, but no luck :-( > > Today it struck me that perhaps your website is enabled only for Windows and > got my old Windows laptop to test my theory out. Hey presto.. it worked :-) > > My concerns are simple : > Worldwide there is a considerable population of Apple Macintosh users.. why > are they being discriminated against? > All the other financial websites like ICICIBANK, AXISBANK, HDFCBANK, MUTUAL > FUNDS, CITIBANK etc work wonderfully well on both the operating systems viz > Windows and Mac OS Snow Leopard... why not State Bank of India? > I think it is high time the SBI authorities take cognizance of this major > limitation and do the necessary technical trouble-shooting to make internet > banking accessible to all. > > ANKUR GUPTA > > PS : I am marking a copy of this to the Apple Macintosh Users in India who > may also be facing a similar issue > -- > www.mindmanagement.in www.myownmindmovie.com > www.mind-management.blogspot.com/ www.artindia.com > _____________________________________________________________________________ > EMAIL ETIQUETTE : Please delete details of all previous senders before > forwarding/sending again. > > -- > IMUG Users website: www.imug.in > > -- > IMUG Users website: www.imug.in -- IMUG Users website: www.imug.in
