OT: Canadian Census 2006
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Wed May 3 19:39:58 UTC 2006
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Robin Laing wrote:
> briert at cepu.ca wrote:
> > > Guy Fraser wrote:
> > >
> >
> > The site is running on a Windows server. This was apparent from a number
> > of timeouts that put up IIS's default message of contact microsoft. The
> > system is also very slow.
> >
> > There is no excuse for developing such a poor site. Not just the
> > restrictions, but also the poor performance.
> >
> > I'm going to send them an e-mail.
> >
> > Tim Brier.
> >
>
> Hey, it is the government. They have fallen into the MS is the best
> trap. :)
>
> BTW, thanks for the tip.
>
> I would rather send in the snail mail version with a nice comment
> page attached. This will have a double impact as they now have to
> pay someone to enter the data that they wanted me to enter.
it's not like i want to drag this thread out any longer, but i'm
pretty sure you can see the problem here:
http://www50.statcan.ca/census2006/js/browserCheck.js
particularly the last few lines of the function
"checkForSupportedBrowserVersion", which reads as follows:
}
// The OS is not MacOS (and not Microsoft Windows)
else {
// The OS is not supported
return false;
}
}
rday
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