On 6/9/20 7:57 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
I would like to understand why a web site could allow me to view certain
pages but not others. For yesterday's conference speakers tech check I
used
Chrome and was able to log into the conference site, set a password,
update
my speaker's profile, navigate the schedule and agenda pages,
including the
one for the tech check meeting. But, there was no '+' link to join the
meeting and the two links on the page displayed an empty message page.
The organizer's tech folks suggested it was because I don't use a windows
OS. This makes no sense to me for two reasons:
1) Web servers speak with web browsers, not the underlying OS.
2) I was able to log in and access a number of pages of the conference
site
so why not the active meeting session?
There's no need for a solution as I'll drive to their offices in Lake
O and
present from their conference room using one of their laptops. But
understanding why site navigation halted at joining a live meeting
would be
really good to know since remote video meetings and conferences seem
to be
part of the new "normal."
Your thoughts?
I have two. While there's no good reason why a web server shouldn't care
with the OS is, it can. Comcast will let me log in from my virtual W7
machine using a windows version of Firefox, it won't let me do so from
my Linux version of Firefox.
The other is Ghostery. I can't read a number of news sites with Ghostery
active. Oddly, I can read most of the Oregonian site with Ghostery
active on my laptop, but it won't open their editorial cartoons link. If
I pause Ghostery, then I can open that link.
No idea if either of those are related to your issue.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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