Author: Stuart Sears Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Website Compatibility
Tony Whitmore wrote: > Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
>> Hi, all!
>>
>> A friend has just been informed from a "help" desk that she cannot make an
>> on-line booking because the website is "only compatible" (sic) with Internet
>> Explorer.
>>
>> Can this be true? How?
>
> Not so long ago most online banking sites required IE. Some didn't work
> properly even if you fiddled with your user-agent
hmmmm.... NatWest was a prime example.
Although, curiously, it worked fine if you told it that you were running
netscape 3.89 (IIRC) on a mac.
At the time this was fairly trivial in konqueror. Now it's trivial in
most common browsers.
The same was true for > online supermarket sites, where all the "big four" only worked properly
> under IE.
...and the national lottery site. This probably hasn't changed. works
fine with a customised User Agent string. They don't respond to email
about this, surprise, surprise.
oh, and argos, IIRC.
although most seem to have fixed these issues by now.
