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From: Chris on 6 Dec 2006 02:26
I've been accepted for a Pos Office credit card. One of the attractions was
the ability to review my account on-line. However, the site comes up
with "This website is best viewed on Internet Explorer version 5.3 or
above" which is annoying enough on its own. However, while I've been able
to access the page on my Turion 64 laptop running Mandriva 2007 (64) by
using the IE for XP identifier on Konqueror, I can't get it to work on my
main machine running the 32-bit version of the same OS. I can't see any
differences in the set-ups (and yes, I've e-mailed the Post Office to
complain).
--
Chris

From: graham on 6 Dec 2006 03:46
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:26:13 +0000, Chris wrote:

> I've been accepted for a Pos Office credit card. One of the attractions
> was the ability to review my account on-line. However, the site comes up
> with "This website is best viewed on Internet Explorer version 5.3 or
> above" which is annoying enough on its own. However, while I've been able
> to access the page on my Turion 64 laptop running Mandriva 2007 (64) by
> using the IE for XP identifier on Konqueror, I can't get it to work on my
> main machine running the 32-bit version of the same OS. I can't see any
> differences in the set-ups (and yes, I've e-mailed the Post Office to
> complain).

Surely you account cannot be secure with that company if it insists that
IE 5.3 is acceptable?
From: Geoffrey Clements on 6 Dec 2006 04:14
"graham" <graham.marsden1(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.12.06.08.48.49.735920(a)ntlworld.com...
> On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:26:13 +0000, Chris wrote:
>
>> I've been accepted for a Pos Office credit card. One of the attractions
>> was the ability to review my account on-line. However, the site comes up
>> with "This website is best viewed on Internet Explorer version 5.3 or
>> above" which is annoying enough on its own. However, while I've been able
>> to access the page on my Turion 64 laptop running Mandriva 2007 (64) by
>> using the IE for XP identifier on Konqueror, I can't get it to work on my
>> main machine running the 32-bit version of the same OS. I can't see any
>> differences in the set-ups (and yes, I've e-mailed the Post Office to
>> complain).
>
> Surely you account cannot be secure with that company if it insists that
> IE 5.3 is acceptable?

Unfortunately this is all too common; egg are actually marketing services
based on ActiveX controls! Needless to say I haven't taken up their offer
and let them know why, see:
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.comp.os.linux/browse_frm/thread/6e83d06b688e7f77/a12a580e0fd837b6?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1#a12a580e0fd837b6

The thing I do is have FireFox on standby, if Konq won't do the job (which
is happening _less_ often these days) then I try the site with FF which
usually works.

--
Geoff


From: Chris on 6 Dec 2006 11:49
Geoffrey Clements wrote:

....
> The thing I do is have FireFox on standby, if Konq won't do the job (which
> is happening _less_ often these days) then I try the site with FF which
> usually works.
>

Unfortunately it (https://www.pofssavecredit.co.uk) fails with Firefox
1.5.0.8 and Opera 9.02 too!

--
Chris

From: Chris on 6 Dec 2006 12:10
Well, I got the 32-bit version working - I noticed the only difference was
that it had https://www.pofssavecredit.co.uk/ in the list of sites
specified in the Browser Identification options, but the laptop had it
listed as https://www.pofssavecredit.co.uk. I deleted the final slash, and
it works.

It's still bloody annoying that it's so damned broken, especially as it
works happily with old (insecure) versions of IE, and won't even work with
Firefox/Mozilla.

I shall complain further if I can find a meaningful contact.

--
Chris

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