[conspire] We don't support Mozilla

[Adrien Lamothe]

Speaking of IE security, you've probably heard the
breaking news. If not, check this out:

www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1788600,00.asp?kc=ewnws042205dtx1k0000599




--- Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org> wrote:
> Lately I've been having a little fun by emailing
> sites that don't
> work with Mozilla/Firefox asking why. 
> Interestingly, it's mostly
> financial or banking sites that I end up emailing --
> but that may be
> because that's where it bugs me the most that
> Firefox isn't supported.
> 
> I often get back messages saying they only support
> IE (and sometimes
> Netscape).  I've never had a reply saying what
> versions of IE or
> Netscape.  Of course,
>
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp
> 
> says "Netscape 7.2 - built with Mozilla (tm)".
> 
> I often reply that I don't use IE for security
> reasons, and ask why
> they are not concerned about security, too. ;)
> 
> My goal is more to get management to ask their
> designers why they are
> not designing for standards and not testing on other
> platforms.  And
> to make them aware that their customers are not all
> using Windows.
> 
> Does anyone else do this?  Any suggestions on how to
> craft a reply
> that might actually make it to someone that manages
> their design
> process?  Think it would do any good to point out
> specific IE
> security issues?
> 
> I also grip about fonts (as my eyes get worse with
> age....).  Anyone
> else think that the fonts are hard to read at:
> 
>    http://www.bankofamerica.com/index.cfm
> 
> moseley at laptop:~$ GET
>
http://www.bankamerica.com/global/hs_home/stylesheets/home_mac_ns6.css
> | grep font-size
>         font-size: 65%;
>         font-size: 65%;
>         font-size: 65%;
>         font-size: 60%;
>         font-size: 60%;
>    font-size: 65%; 
>         font-size: 65%;
>         font-size: 75%;
>         font-size: 70%;
>         font-size: 60%;
>         font-size: 70%;
>         font-size: 60%;
>         font-size: 70%;
>         font-size: 70%;
>         font-size: 70%;
>         font-size: 65%;
>         font-size: 65%;
>         font-size: 70%;
>         font-size: 65%;
>         font-size: 65%;
>         font-size: 65%;
>         font-size: 75%;
>         font-size: 75%;
>         font-size: 75%;
>         font-size: 75%;
>    font-size: 1px;
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bill Moseley
> moseley at hank.org
> 
> 
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