They replied and were really cool and seemed interested in resolving the situation. He said it was only JavaScript so I think what's happening is that for some odd reason they're testing for an Operating System and if they don't get Windows or Mac as a result then the unsupported page pops up. I don't know for sure though. He said he'd fix it though. If anything, it was nice that he responded so quickly. Seems encouraging.
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Theresa Kehoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 05:27 -0500, Sean Burns wrote: >> To add to the discussion about government's use of proprietary >> technology, I thought I'd confirm my voter registration at this >> site: >> >> http://www.showmeboone.com/CLERK/VRSearchByName.asp?REASON=DEFAULT >> >> After entering my name I was taken to a page that lists all my >> info. Which was good. Although the address to where I vote was >> provided, there was also a link that said: >> >> View Map to Polling Location >> >> I clicked on that link and was taken to this page: >> >> http://gis.showmeboone.com/viewers/bc_voter_app_v4/unsupported.htm >> >> Which says: >> >> "Sorry, your browser or platform is not supported in this >> application." >> >> My goodness. I sent them an email. >> >> Sean > > gotta love it ... "<meta name="vs_targetSchema" > content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5";>" from the web > page itself. > > >From Micro$oft's Visual Studio Developer Center, it has this to say: > "targetSchema property selects the validation schema used for designing > an HTML document, XML document, or Web forms page. Each available > setting names a Web browser for which the document can be designed." > > So I guess they developed their web pages to support IE5? Real > cutting-edge stuff there! > > Go give 'em the what-for, Sean! > > Theresa > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
