Does RS sell what you want? The couple of things I checked on at
Farnell had huge prices.
http://www.rsaustralia.com
The only way to get web standards is to get web standards, not the
present crap where everybody fudges the standards for commercial gain
- are any major internet software companies not guilty of this??
Ian.
At 6:45 pm +0800 30/11/05, Richard Hosking wrote:
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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