RE: Design Change Requests

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

Certainly that's a good point.  However FF 1.0.7 is probably less than
six months old, I was not aware that 1.5 was even out.  (Checked, it was
installed on my machine on 9/20/2005)  Additionally, due to increased
security I no longer have admin access to my PC here at work and I now
have to submit a security form any time I want to upgrade anything. 

Someone mentioned that they run a full system virus scan whenever they
use IE.  I don't think that is an over-reaction.  I finally quit using
IE entirely when I found that the IE cache was harboring trojans that my
virus scan couldn't clean.

My original question was: Why doesn't this page allow unsupported
browsers to continue, or at least present a "browser not supported"
message instead of some cryptic message with no info and circular links?

I don't really want to get into a discussion of the various features of
dozens of browsers, I just want to know why anyone would write code that
excludes one browser over another.  I can use any number of 5250 or
telnet clients to access my iSeries and I don't ever get a message that
says: "Your request cannot be displayed."

Regards,
 
Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group


-----Original Message-----
date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:32:36 -0500
from: rob@xxxxxxxxx
subject: Re: Design Change Requests

A big point to consider is that some people, using FF had no problem
with 
that site.  They just used a newer version of FF.  Is it really such a 
PITA to upgrade your browser?  Or is there some business decision to 
remain at ancient versions of the browser in order to test any website
you 
design that it is compatible with old versions of FF?  Are there really 
"users", and not web developers, that use something like FF and refuse
to 
upgrade to a newer version of FF?

Rob Berendt