RE: Design Change Requests

["Ingvaldson, Scott" <SIngvaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

According to http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp :

As of January 2006 IE 6 has 61.3% of the market and Firefox has 24.8%.
In my mind that makes it less than "obscure."  It should be as easy to
support two or three versions of the #2 browser as it is to support the
31 flavors of IE and its associated patches.

But I digress.  

As offensive as I find browser specific coding and the fact that when
you complain of this sort of behavior to IBM all you will hear is "We
only support IE" my main complaint in this case is that instead of
allowing unsupported browsers to continue, or at least presenting a
"browser not supported" message; this link responds with an error page,
which links to a search page, which after choosing among the 10
catgories you wish to search through will eventually bring you back to
the original link that doesn't work with Firefox 1.0.7.

It's just a web form, for gosh sakes...

The larger point is that it shouldn't be that difficult to submit a DCR.
They quit accepting emails some time ago, now you can't submit one using
an unsupported browser.  Don't they want DCR's?

Regards,
 
Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group

PS  Good News!  The feedback form works fine using FF1.0.7.


-----Original Message-----
date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:00:06 -0500
from: rob@xxxxxxxxx
subject: Re: Design Change Requests

And I care, why?

Actually, you should click on the following and report it
https://www-912.ibm.com/w_dir/webcom.nsf/comment?openform

Don't know if IBM has an anti GOTO department that scans their internal 
code for use of GOTO in COBOL or RPG.  Perhaps they could take that same

technique and scan for usages of HTML that make obscure browsers hurl.

Rob Berendt