another sad story of pure ignorance and "over thinking" from the site developers side.
Ilya, did you contact the webmasters there and told them that the side it perfectly viewed with mozilla? All that is needed, is remove the separate pages for Netscape.
I did, and so far received no reply. See my letter below.
When dealing with a government body such as Yad-VaShem, wouldn't a political approach (which HaMakor excels at, using subjects like "accessibility", "availability to every citizen", "government moving to open standards" etc.) work better than a technical mail?
Can you see a governmental body make a change just to please the citizen (rather than to please the superiors)?
-- This is the letter I've sent to the webmaster: --
Hello,
I've noticed that the link to YadVaShem's Hebrew site leads to a redirection page, which tests (via JavaScript) for the Internet Explorer browser, and otherwise redirects the user to a page claiming he has a Netscape browser and that he should "upgrade".
I tried browsing the Hebrew web site (via the URL http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/heb_site/ ) with recent version of Mozilla and Netscape web browsers and had no problems reading the text or navigating across the site. Neither did I have problems using it with the Konqueror web browser.
Please remove the redirection page altogether or replace it with a simple:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/heb_site/";>
for the following reasons:
1. There are no problems browsing YadVaShem's web site with other
browsers.
2. Even if the user's browser has any trouble displaying the site, the
user should be left to decide.
3. We can't require all users to install Internet Explorer. Some users
run operating systems for which Internet Explorer isn't available.
Others don't install it because of the security risks. We shouldn't
block them from Hebrew contents of Yad-VaShem, especially nowadays
when the government itself promotes accessibility of governmental
information systems and adoption of open standards.Thanks!
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