On 20/03/2012, at 8:12 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > > On 20/03/2012, at 7:31 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> On 20/03/2012, at 7:12 AM, Peter Hinchliffe <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 16/03/2012, at 5:25 PM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: >>> >>>> yep, >>>> after updating safari to 5.1.4 it worked, but i found this: >>>> Portal Browser Support >>>> Services accessed via the Department of Education Portal currently >>>> function best with our supported browser, Internet Explorer 6.x >>>> Other browsers may be used to access the DEO Portal but these are >>>> currently not supported. >>>> Questions relating to the above should be directed to the ICT Customer >>>> Service Centre by email to [email protected] or by >>>> telephone to 1800 012 828 or (08) 9264 5555 >>> >>> Inexcusable! >>> >>> Perhaps the Department of Education needs to send someone on a course to >>> learn about modern web technologies… >>> >>> Even Microsoft themselves acknowledge that IE6 is an antiquated, insecure >>> bug-ridden mess! >> >> So very true Peter, I would not use the Internet if I had to use IE6. >> Only last week I had quite a somewhat heated discussion with a High School >> Principal re just this issue. >> Unfortunately the Education Department and their IT just "Don't Get It"! >> > > If only this problem was confined to this particular issue, but we see it all > too frequently in what are generally government-base sites or those of large, > seemingly inflexible organisations such as standards authorities. Such > organisations, which by their nature should be accessible to as many users as > possible, tend to be precisely the opposite, causing those of us who support > users to go through numerous hoops just to make these horrible web pages > work. And it's not just their web sites... > > As just one alarming example, I regularly receive, on behalf of a client, a > spreadsheet file containing report data from one of the largest health > insurance companies in the country (and yes, it's government-based - is that > enough clues? : ) ). This file, which always comes from the same contact, > is created in MS Excel 95! Perhaps we can look forward to the day when they > upgrade to Windows 98…
Ah Peter, If it wasn’t so serious … it would be funny! Government Departments are the worst, they refuse to advance with technology and unfortunately they brain wash everyone involved. The Education Department is a classic example of brain washed IT Departments. Please don’t get me started ;-) Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.3 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
