On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 17:49, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Doug Foskey">
> Remember that Internet Explorer has accounted for over 90% of browsers in > some studies. So, whilst that may mean they could be ruling out 10% of their > potential customers, I don't think that the extra expense to support or > develop (and train people to support and develop) for those platforms would > be very attractive to them. > Actually that figure is under challenge now because many users set their alternate browsers to say they are IE 5.0 even though they aren't. > > It will be a very hard slog getting disinterested companies to support us. > It's just too hard, and we haven't given them a big enough incentive yet. > But there are other ways around it. :-) There is a third way, Banks spend a fortune on marketing themselves as being friendly and easy to contact (sic). There is now a website http://www.starnix.com/banks-n-browsers.html on this web site you will find details of banks in 32 countries.(yes even Australia) read the notice on the web page and if you have any info on banks not on the chart or if the chart is in error email the info ASAP. Just ignoring them and walking out the door wont work banks are basically an image driven industry, and if you can find a flaw in that image and make it public, then they will either sit there looking stupid or change, the later is cheaper as they spend over AU$20-200 million on their image per year. > > - Jeff > > -- > "It's like having someone say to you, 'You should get back together > with your first wife. You guys were good together'. It's not that > simple." - David Byrne on Talking Heads > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- ******************************************************************** * Hey if you're going to get mad at me every time I do something * * stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things! * ******************************************************************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
