Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

ideally it should have been browser independent,but it is not so.
the reason--frankly speaking,I don't know.your guess is as good as mine.

On 7 August 2011 16:12, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <
webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:

> On 08/07/2011 04:16 AM, Stan Goodman wrote:
>
> > On 08/07/2011 06:05 AM, soumalya ray wrote:
> >
> > > not only US govt;even indian govt organisations forces users to use MS
> > > product.though obviously US is a much bigger cat.
> > > for example,during my post-graduate entrance exam form filling up,the
> > > site (
> > > www.aiimsexams.org) told me that only IE is allowed,nothing else.
> > > so i used the useragent changer add-on in firefox and completed the
> > > form!!!!!!!!!!!!
> > > my question is simple-when firefox able to fill up the form with the
> > > add-on,why are they forcing us to use IE?????i mailed them but nobody
> > > replied.
> >
> > It could have been much worse. The designer of the form could just as well
> > have used MS-specific coding that would have made it impossible to use any
> > browser other than IE, thus insuring that only Windows users could be
> > accepted into the post-graduate program while Linus users (members of a
> > lower caste) would be excluded. Count your blessings.
> >
> > The reason nobody replied to you is that they think you are a crank or
> > madman.
> >
> >
> >  My question is why would a designer use MS-specific coding?
>
> I remember being told that people should never design a site that requires
> the user to use one browser over another.  You must test out your site to
> make sure it runs on several browsers to make it readable/usable to
> everyone.
>
> That designer must have used software that creates IE specific code
> results.  They still exist, but I sure would not use one.  If he/she wrote
> the form in a specific scripting language, like Javascript, Perl, PHP, etc.,
> then there should be no reason to create an IE specific coding for the form
> site.
>
> Firefox has a large market share, 10-15%.  Then there is Mac users.  There
> is about 10%, as I have read, of college users using the Mac.  IE only would
> stop those users from filling out that form, along with the Linux users.
>  This is a problem and the designer should have not caused it.
>
> Yes there is an IE simulator add-on for Firefox, but how many people know
> about it?  I forgot about it till it was brought up.
>
> I wonder if the designer was a MS fan and did not want any non-MS person to
> have an easy time filling out this required form?
>
>
>
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