On Wednesday 05 March 2003 04:00, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Well, it's actually that 9.9995% of the time the people who make the site fail to test it with Mozilla or Netscape 6/7. It's not that it doesn't work. They figure if they get the often over quoted 95% of the "planet" that's using IE and they test it slightly with Netscape 4.x for the other perceived .0001% of the users then they are doing fine.
I think especially mozilla suffers from too many releases. Testing costs money, and especially banks don't want to use untested code (at least in theory, in practice it may be another story). Mozilla users are extremely loud in their demands, and often require support of even the latest beta version. Why netscape 6/7 isn't supported though is another question, and very puzzling to me.
This is one of the main reasons I am inflexible when it comes to this. I do not even think Konqueror should give the option to change the user agent string. I think that if users bitched to these institutions that they would have to change their policy.
I agree in principle, but in practice I need to pay my bills and doing it the old style by actually going to the bank is *very* expensive here (haven't done it in a while, but it's in the neighbourhood of $3/bill or more)