[CLUE-Tech] Is this true?

[Grant Johnson]

Not only that, but Netscape DOES work with their menuing system (even if 
they cannot spell)

BOF wrote:

> Thanks to all of you who took time to reply. I suspected some of the 
> points in your replies, but wanted to confirm my opinions before 
> sending the site a comment. Here is what I sent the CEO and CIS 
> officer of the site in question
>
>    Hello,
>
>    I recently visited your web site (www.msaa.com) and found the
>    following under a drop-down menu "Mac/Netscape Users" at the right
>    side of the menus on the main page:
>
>        Assistance for Macintosh and Netscape Users
>
>        Some Macintosh and most Netscape users experience problems when
>        accessing our pages. This is mostly due to Netscape no longer
>        supporting basic code used to run our menuing system.
>
>        In order to assist you, we have to alter all of our pages in
>        order to make everything compatible. This is a long and detailed
>        process for which we neither have the manhours or funds to
>        complete. We will make the effort to support the various web
>        browsers, but we do not know when that will be completed.
>
>        Until then, our hearts are with you.
>        If you wish to upgrade to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, please
>        click icon.
>
>    The excuse that "Netscape no longer supporting basic code used to
>    run the menuing system" is quite simply not true. I suspect that
>    whoever designed the page did it with a Microsoft tool and included
>    MS proprietary code,  Javascript, or ActiveX components  --- which
>    would make the site a non-standard site. There is no reason for the
>    designer to patronize the reader with a long false tale of woe about
>    having to alter the pages for other browsers, for I believe that, if
>    they had done a better job,  i.e., one that complied with published
>    open code standards for web pages, the site would be open to all
>    browsers to begin with.
>
>    As far as the message of assistance directed at MacIntosh users, I
>    do not understand it at all. While the operating system has nothing
>    to do with the display of a web page, it may determine which browser
>    can be run. In fact, Mac users cannot run Internet Explorer because
>    IE is a Intel-based operating system browser. So why direct them to
>    upgrade to a browser when they cannot run it to begin with? Such
>    statements only further my opinion about the level of professional
>    competence of the designer of the page.
>
>    If it is MSAA's decision not support browsers other than IE, then
>    the site should simply state that it is optimized for IE. There is
>    no reason to insult those who come to visit by degrading their
>    choice of browser and operating system or telling them they need to
>    "please click icon" [sic] to get Internet Explorer.
>
>    P. S. BTW, when the designer finished the page, did they proof it? I
>    believe that in the MSAA logo, the word should be spelled
>    "Association" and not "Assoctation".
>
> Let's see how long it takes them to correct the spelling error. <g>
>
> BOF
>
>
>
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