I did E mail them with my protest. However I am only a small time
hobbyist in electronics - I doubt that they would be worried about my
busines too much. Their site was a vast improvement on their previous
one and was good right up to the final ordering page.
They have specialist components which are not available at the usual
hobby shops.
Richard
Greg Twyford wrote:
Richard Hosking wrote:
This is common even in the commercial world.
I tried to order some electronic components thru Farnell, whose main
*business* is online ordering. They admitted that the only browser
that would work was IE and had no plans to upgrade to others - didnt
see the business need.
Richard,
Similar problems exist with St George Internet banking. It does work
with Firefox, but not with Linux anymore. A couple of years ago I
convinced them for a while to keep it compliant, but then it stopped,
I'm sure because they adopted the latest version of the MS technology
on their site.
Making the web as proprietary as possible for MS only products has
long been an MS objective, which must be resisted. Changing the bank
where you have your home loan is a bit radical, but changing a
components supplier isn't. Have you considered getting your stuff
elsewhere and telling them why?
Greg
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