On Jan 14, 2012, at 1:41 PM, David W. Morris wrote:

> Sounds very strange that an employment form would only allow one browser to 
> work in order to fill out the form?  Even stranger that it would only work 
> with a specific version of that browser.  


You haven't dealt with state bureaucracies and their oddball software very 
much, have you? 

At the university I work at (as a database and web programmer, no less, all of 
whose products work with most platforms...I've even tested my stuff against 
lynx...which is a great way of quickly ensuring that your website is probably 
ADA-compliant, btw*) we have several "enterprise" sites that only work with IE 
on Windows. 

One group even has a widely used PDF form that will only work with IE on 
Windows.  

The state's physician registry has a public facing physician search page that 
does not work with anything but IE on Windows..or did as of about a year ago, 
the last I checked.

(the latter prompted me to write a rather strongly worded email to the 
webmaster of the site about public access to public records, and I got an email 
back, basically saying 'I know, I know...I've pointed it out a bunch of times, 
but the so-called 'programmer' that the board hired cannot figure out how to do 
anything without his pet programming tools which only work on Windows'.)

*This is why, when I last counted, I had something like 20 web browsers 
installed on my development system, across 5 operating systems...

-- 
Bruce Johnson

"Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai,  PhD

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