On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008, Shachar Raindel wrote about "Accessible government > sites - is it so?": <SNIPPED> > I can (barely) understand ignorant web designers who simply don't know that > anything other than IE exists. What drives me crazy are those who know that > other browsers exist, and delibrately choose to screw them. > > One such example of a government site I saw was the airport authority's site > (www.iaaa.gov.il). The site mostly appear to work well, and even the fancy > Javascript menus work on Firefox. Until you try to go to the section 99% of > this site's users come from: the flight schedule. When I tried it a few days > ago, instead of the result list, I got a "This site was designed for IE 5.5 > and above" message. How hard would it have been to show the search results > instead of this stupid message??? If everything in the site's interactive > Javascript trickery works on Firefox, what could be so fancy about the flight > list (most likely, a simply textual list) that couldn't be properly displayed > on Firefox? Finally, if you know that non-IE browsers exist, how hard was it > to try them, instead of programming in a special "screw you" message for the > users of these browsers? It takes more time: you must download the "bad" browser, install it, run it, etc. Even worse, the "bad" browser sometimes runs only on "bad" operating systems, you must install the latter too. Sometimes you must set up the networking on the "bad" operating system, which can be hard. In short, instead of wasting valuable time for those "bad" configutation which almost nobody uses, they prefer the "smart" solution with the "very helpful" message. > > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Jan 13 2008, 6 Shevat 5768 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Happiness isn't getting what you want, > http://nadav.harel.org.il |it's wanting what you've got. > _______________________________________________ > Discussions mailing list > [email protected] > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions > _______________________________________________ Discussions mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions
