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-For various reasons, some
web designers have an annoying tendency
to create sites that only work in [Microsoft] InternetExplorer. Often they've used a [Microsoft] tool that creates dirty HTML, and sometimes the designers claim that they're using advanced features 'only supported by IE' or that it's 'too hard' to design and test for more than one browser
.
+For various reasons, many
web designers have an annoying habit
to create sites that only work in [Microsoft] InternetExplorer. Often they've used a [Microsoft] tool that creates dirty [
HTML]
, and sometimes the designers claim that they're using advanced features 'only supported by IE' or that it's 'too hard' to design and test for more than one WebBrowser
.
There are a number of sites that discuss this issue.
-* http://www.perl.com/language/misc/ms-ascii.html
* http://members.optusnet.com.au/~night.owl/morons.html
* http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
+* http://www.webstandards.org/
+----
+See also LinuxFriendlyBanks, and RealWorldWebCompliance
+----
+!!Hall Of Shame
-__HallOfShame__ %%%
-
There are a number of sites in New Zealand that suffer from this problem. Feel free to add any you encounter to this list:
+There are a number of sites in New Zealand that suffer from this problem. Feel free to add any you encounter to this list __after__ you have emailled the web master with your carefully written description of the problem
:
-*
http://www.butch
.co.nz/ - Ugly 'squashed/overlapping' text
, and uses MS
-specific Javascript
to launch
a flash game (which should otherwise
work in any
browser that has
the flash plugin.
.)
+http://members.tripod.com/cbranz/ :
+ It takes some skill to design a website this bad! (__warning__: blink tags)
+
http://www.supertrust
.co.nz/ :
+ "Your browser is not supported on this site
, please download Explorer 5.0 or above from Microsoft Corporation."
+http://www.frogprints.co.nz/ :
+ "You will need Internet Explorer 5.5 or above to really appreciate the new process!" What this means that if you use a Mozilla
-based browser
to upload photos from
a DigitalCamera for printing, then the process will seem to
work okay until after you have uploaded your many megabytes of photos, entered
in your payment details, and click "next" -- and then it will go back to the start and ask you to upload your photos again (and keep doing this if you try again). (Also there were several other non-
browser specific but serious technical problems, but this is not
the correct page for dicussing them
.) Their sales team did not even bother to respond to a politely worded email discussing these problems. Of course, they also have a page entitled [Top 10 Reasons to Use Windows XP Professional for Digital Photography | http://www.frogprints.co.nz/opw/WinXPtop10.cfm] so perhaps they are not interested in non-Windows/Internet Explorer using consumers. -- JohnMcPherson