On Nov 15, 2003, at 03:52 pm, Tony Coult wrote:
Managed to get this off, in spite of their stupid notice stopping me see the site that looks perfectly clear on safari...
"You have absolutely no business excluding the significant minority of Mac users who might want to use your site. You certainly won't have my business! Its not difficult to make your site compatible. Its just lazy of your IT people not to do so. Mac users are, in the main, likely to use the web a lot for online shopping and business. Sort it out!
TONY COULT"
As a web designer I can tell you that this is purely the result of using ASP to produce websites. It's a bad piece of work that only works three quarters of the time anyway, it costs a shed-load to purchase the authoring tools (ASP.NET) and it generates bulky HTML returns. What is more it's fronted by Microsoft. The reason they have this message is because they have been told by someone that ASP is only compatible with Windows, because he has overreacted to findings that browsers that are not built around the MS IE API system (which is only available in Windows) may suffer compatibility problems with certain ASP operations (the number of which is decreasing rapidly as people find workarounds or MS fix them). That someone in question doesn't know his elementary canal from his elbow and should be banned from talking to any major decision making body for the rest of his life :).
As the 'Industry Standard' bandwagon has (quite rightly) beaten up Microsoft continually regarding these issues and others regarding Web Authoring and Browsers, MS have (not without a great number of tantrums and throwing of toys) made steps to improve ASP to a level where it will work. A handful of companies that use it still insist on this kind of asinine behavior that basically just shoots them in the foot. It's pure laziness and lack of understanding. The World Wide Web is based on standards and standards mean compatibility.
Any site that displays this or a similar message gets my immediate thumbs-down.
FWIW I run an e-commerce site at work that uses a PERL/CGI based solution and it works impeccably on any computer I've ever tried it on :).
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