Monday 10th March 2003
Diverse Browsing
Ooh, it’s nice to see that some people are finally realising that there’s more to life (on the Internet) than just Internet Explorer. The ’supported browsers’ list for the latest incarnation of SOLE reads as follows:
- IE 4.x and above
- Netscape 7.x
- Mozilla 1.0 & 1.1b
- Konqueror 2.2
- Safari 1.0 Beta
- OmniWeb 4.1.1
- Opera 5.
It even states that other browsers may work, but just that they aren’t officially supported. Now if only the dipsticks over at the Royal Bank of Scotland would sort their online banking out, I’d be happy. It used to come up with a message saying that you needed Internet Explorer 4.0 or above (hmmm), or Netscape Navigator 4.0 to 4.76 inclusive (shudder), but now it just automatically closes the pop-up window if you don’t have the right browser, which is pretty poor customer service. It’s as if I went into a branch, walked up to the counter, and when I started speaking the teller just shouted ‘Next!’, with no explanation as to why I wasn’t being served. That would be shocking; as is their website as far as I’m concerned.