[MACCAWS] Re: A recent experience I had

Nathan Wright <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:47:50 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.vkit
Organization Rocky Mountain Harley-Davidson
Message-ID <ZMLWQE3WOL6ZWR2WQ41A0A687YT.3d88a026@vaio>
I, too, had a similar experience recently. The company I work for relies on Opera for 
our main browser (IE hangs between 5-10 MINUTES just to load a single page, tech 
support doesn't know why and they refuse to try to fix it). One of the vendors we 
use relies on javascript for navigation and "secure" logon ... however their code 
specifically excludes Opera users (with the window.opera object). When I spoke to 
their tech support people I received much the same answer "... not cost effective 
to code for non-IE browsers" despite the fact that they have specifically coded 
AGAINST non-IE browsers (strangely enough, their site worked fine until a week 
ago). So now I'm forced to use IE (the entire transaction now taking 60+ minutes 
rather than 5) and as soon as I find another vendor we'll see how cost effective 
their stance is. :-)

Nathan