ideally it should have been browser independent,but it is not so. the reason--frankly speaking,I don't know.your guess is as good as mine.
On 7 August 2011 16:12, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions < [email protected]> wrote: > On 08/07/2011 04:16 AM, Stan Goodman wrote: > >> On 08/07/2011 06:05 AM, soumalya ray wrote: >> >>> not only US govt;even indian govt organisations forces users to use MS >>> product.though obviously US is a much bigger cat. >>> for example,during my post-graduate entrance exam form filling up,the >>> site ( >>> www.aiimsexams.org) told me that only IE is allowed,nothing else. >>> so i used the useragent changer add-on in firefox and completed the >>> form!!!!!!!!!!!! >>> my question is simple-when firefox able to fill up the form with the >>> add-on,why are they forcing us to use IE?????i mailed them but nobody >>> replied. >>> >> >> It could have been much worse. The designer of the form could just as well >> have used MS-specific coding that would have made it impossible to use any >> browser other than IE, thus insuring that only Windows users could be >> accepted into the post-graduate program while Linus users (members of a >> lower caste) would be excluded. Count your blessings. >> >> The reason nobody replied to you is that they think you are a crank or >> madman. >> >> >> My question is why would a designer use MS-specific coding? > > I remember being told that people should never design a site that requires > the user to use one browser over another. You must test out your site to > make sure it runs on several browsers to make it readable/usable to > everyone. > > That designer must have used software that creates IE specific code > results. They still exist, but I sure would not use one. If he/she wrote > the form in a specific scripting language, like Javascript, Perl, PHP, etc., > then there should be no reason to create an IE specific coding for the form > site. > > Firefox has a large market share, 10-15%. Then there is Mac users. There > is about 10%, as I have read, of college users using the Mac. IE only would > stop those users from filling out that form, along with the Linux users. > This is a problem and the designer should have not caused it. > > Yes there is an IE simulator add-on for Firefox, but how many people know > about it? I forgot about it till it was brought up. > > I wonder if the designer was a MS fan and did not want any non-MS person to > have an easy time filling out this required form? > > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected].** > org <users%[email protected]> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/users/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Dr soumalya ray <http://drsoumalya.blogspot.com> <[email protected]> MBBS,MD(PGT)C.Medicine,Ex-HousePhysician(Medicine) Skype: som3776 | Twitter: @docbkp <http://twitter.com/docbkp> -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
