[lug] OT: IE questions

[Davide Del Vento]

Thanks to everybody!
I successfully submitted that form with Chrome. Note that the day before I
submitted they changed the warning to "This website works best with Internet
Explorer", so I went ahead with Chrome.

Bear, yours is a very interesting interpretation (but they didn't say
Internet Explorer 6 or "above", "more recent", etc). Thanks!

Side note: I had the opportunity to use IE7 before they changed the warning
(it didn't work because that day the website was overwhelmed). What a pain
is that! Internet Explorer and Windows Vista are terrible (I know, there was
a big press campaign telling how bad Vista was, but this is my first time I
use it for doing anything....) I won't bother you with the details, unless
you ask.

Thanks again,
Davide

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 16:50, Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com> wrote:

> I've been on the other side of this. First there's two interpretations -
> are these versions the floor or the ceiling?
>
> If it's the floor then it's because the stakeholders are keeping the door
> open for the people with really old systems on slow phone lines. Remember
> there are a lot of people in poverty, a lot of people where they can only
> use slow modems on unreliable lines, etc. Government agencies put a very
> high priority on being accessible to the most people - a business might be
> willing to write off the bottom 5% but government agencies aren't.
>
> If it's the ceiling then it's probably because of limited resources for
> development and testing. That concern is less reasonable now with good
> javascript libraries and better standards compliance among browsers but
> legacy code won't be using that.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:53 AM, George Sexton <georges at mhsoftware.com>wrote:
>
>> I'd download this add-in for firefox and set it to IE 6 and see what
>> happens.
>>
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/
>>
>>
>>
>> George Sexton
>> MH Software, Inc.
>> 303 438-9585
>> www.mhsoftware.com
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-
>> > bounces at lug.boulder.co.us] On Behalf Of Davide Del Vento
>> > Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 10:03 PM
>> > To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
>> > Subject: [lug] OT: IE questions
>> >
>> > Folks,
>> > I've just come across a (federal government) website in which I need
>> > to submit a form. The website says: "This Web site only supports
>> > Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7."
>> > Questions:
>> >
>> > 1) the form looks fine in Chrome/Firefox 3.6 under linux. Do you think
>> > that they just have that warning, but than the thing works? If the
>> > answer is "who knows", do you think it's possible to decide the answer
>> > looking at the HTML of the page?
>> >
>> > 2) weren't those IE version very old? And available only in windows
>> > XP? Is is possible/easy to run them on Windows Vista? Windows 7?
>> > Finding a M$ machine is already painful, finding a old one, it's even
>> > worst :-(
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Davide
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