Actually it is against the law to force a consumer to use products from another company when you have a perfectly good product that does the job and meets international and local standards. I think at one SLUG meeting 2 weeks 2 months ago someone mentioned that in fact there are standards set by the Australian Gov for companies who want to offer public documentation and services and infringing those standards can leave you open to a hefty fine.
Ive noticed in the USA people with disabilities are suing such companies as banks etc for producing web sites that block access by people with disabilities due to lack of fundamental standards in the access portal (windows IE isn't a standard). Often commercial web sites try to create a glossy bloated dysfunctional boring and total irrelevant web portals to a service. I would love to see some of these really horrid web sites get rid of all the crap and just show me what I want. I dont need to see 20 animated GIFS running around saying how happy I must be to have to view all this crap every time I use their service, and I still cant see what the bloody hell I want, but whooo aren't those stupid gif's cool.(I'm so over web page graphics) I'm starting to realize why for every 5 people who connect to the Internet 2 disconnect within a year. On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 18:25, John McQuillen wrote: > So St George, why don't you spend a little time and effort into, if not > coding your app to work better with Linux browsers, perhaps a single > page on your site with tips on getting Internet Banking to work in > Linux, and let the users help themselves? As far as I am concerned, > user-agent checking to limit access to users running Microsoft Windows > and Internet Explorer should be against the law. > > Did I mention that IT WORKS FOR ME?! > > Love, > > John... > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- ******************************************************************** * Hey if you're going to get mad at me every time I do something * * stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things! * ******************************************************************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
