On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 1:32 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 4:58 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > >>On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 13:41, David wrote: > >>>Not to belabor this point, but -- I sent a message to the BBT IT > >>>department and here is their reply --- what a hoot! > >>> > >>>Dear Mr. Williams: > >>> > >>>Thank you for writing to BB&T OnLine Support regarding > >>>compatibility of WebConnect and Sun. > >>> > >>>Sun Microsystems contain features that are not compatible with > >>>WebConnect. > >>> > >>>Sun Microsystems uses their own Java, rather than Microsoft > >>> Java. WebConnect uses the Java scripting found only in > >>> Microsoft Internet Explorer and earlier versions of Netscape > >>> such as Netscape 4.75. > >> > >><WHACK> > >> > >>Here's a question to ask them; do they only have white customers? > >> > >>It's literally the same thing. Prejudicial treatment. (Not > >>intentionally, but because the IT department for that bank is > >> stuck with a Microsoft solution - which tells you basically > >> where a large amount of the profits they make go...) > >> > >>I laid that out before to a US bank; they didn't like that all > >> that much; but as it was explained to them, it's the same basic > >> treatment. > >> > >>I've currently got something similar going with the Australian > >> Tax Office here over MS Java being used for doing our BAS > >> (Business Activity Statement)... > > > >Since the people making the decisions are often ignorant of the > >issues, has anyone pointed out to them that IE can cope happily > > with non-M$ java, so no-one is excluded, whereas the opposite is > > certainly not true? > > > >We must keep on banging away at these sites. If a site is selling > >something I can get elsewhere, I just move on if I meet the > > problem, but for government sites, banking sites, and other such > > services we need to fight for our rights > > > >Anne > > I had a go at PCWorld today about using MS Java on their websites, > a guy from their sales dept rang to ask why we were not using their > account facilities as organised, and I politely told them how use > of MS java script makes linux customes at a disadvantage when > visiting their website. I know it struck home. > > John
:-) Keep at it, John Anne
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