On Sunday 24 February 2002 20:37, Peter Sutter wrote:
when the government forces jobseekers to access their web pages and designs their web pages in such a way that these can only be viewed wit IE, it becomes discriminatory. Try their glorious site at http://www.joblist.com.au.
When I received a parking ticket in Vancouver BC, for parking between 2 locals who got away in time, their web site actually apologized for not yet supporting the first browser I attempted to use to pay my fine. Here in the US, the fafsa government web site gave me a big list of supported OS and browser combinations, apparently because it detected that I was running linux. None of the supported combinations involved linux, although it seems that Opera and Netscape are supported adequately. One of the MS web sites allows me to log in with Opera, but proceeds to tell me I must download software! I'm sure it's guaranteed not to run under Wine, given Bill G's attitude toward free software. I find the position of American linux shops harder to understand, when they reject resumes written in Word97 compatible format simply because they detect that they have come from a linux system. I'm fortunate enough to have landed a job which involves both Windows and linux work, but none of the engineering which I did for 30 years, so please don't consider this a rant mode.