On Thu, 27 May 2004 10:54:19 -0600 Ron Hunter-Duvar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On May 27, 2004 03:05, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > On Thursday 27 May 2004 05:34, rikona wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > > > Compounding the problem is the widespread need to lie about > > > browser type. This simply adds to the statistics favoring IE, > > > and make them LESS likely to change when they look at the > > > numbers. Some have told me less than 1% of users are non-IE! > > > Maybe they went someplace else. > > > > </snip> > > > > Yes, I did. I simply told my former bank, that if they couldn't > > make a standards-compatible webservice, then I couldn't trust > > them my money. I don't think they had the faintest idea of what > > I was talking about, though. Anyway, they lost a customer, and I > > would never humiliate myself by letting my browsers pretend to > > come from the dark side. > > > > Kaj Haulrich. > > I've never stooped to pretending to be IE. That would just make me > feel dirty :^\. I never even thought of the stats issue before, > but now I definitely won't ever do this. > > I can bring myself to pretend to be Netscape or Mozilla, though - > at least they're open source, and any stats count against M$. > > I'd like to be able to get these sites fixed, but the only way to > get a Canadian bank to move on an issue is to get them looking bad > in the news, or taking them before the Superintendant of Financial > Institutions. But neither of these is going to care about a techie > issue like this. In my younger days I enjoyed tilting at > windmills, but I don't have the energy for it any more :^). I once > fought for more than a year to have various bugs fixed in an > online trading site, with zero success. Then came the crash, and I > just cashed out and gave up on them. > > -- > Ron Hunter-Duvar > ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net > > Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use > these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. > > I've always had to id as mse with Washington Mutual. I just switched back to Opera for a min and checked. Still barfs. Two years or more after complaining. Frankly though, my computer is a tool, not a toy. I keep my fanaticism in church and use my tools however they work best. 1.5 cents Lee
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