Madmanmcp Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9231271/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 That's just plain stupid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Rob Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 No Bruce, that's the government. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevevan Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Not necessarily. For my job, we are allowed to carry a government purchace card (basically a credit card) for purchases we need to make on the job. This card is through US Bank. We are required to visit their website to download, print out, validate, then send in our monthly statements. Their website only works with IE also. I wrote to complain about it and was basically told "Use Internet Explorer and like it." I was a bit miffed to say the least! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 No Bruce, that's the government. True, what was I thinking! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deverill Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Guess we know who to send the "Try Firefox" links to now, eh? It is really disappointing that the government web creators aren't a bit more creative than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonize Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 But as it states they are using the lazy approach for browser checking so if you change your useragent to spoof IE6 it lets you carry on as normal. Silly silly tech guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cajunman4life Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 (edited) Hmm, I accessed the site with Opera 8.02 on Windows (identifying itself as MSIE 6.0) and it worked just fine Edited September 8, 2005 by cajunman4life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rednarb Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Guess we know who to send the "Try Firefox" links to now, eh? Have you tried THIS link? It doesn't seem to support Firefox either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cajunman4life Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Have you tried THIS link? It doesn't seem to support Firefox either... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I just checked it in Firefox, works fine here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marie b. Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Works fine here, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Works fine in Firefox for me. You may have a corrupted install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Or you don't have the flash plugin installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cajunman4life Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Ahh ha, I'll bet what Bruce mentioned is the case. The missing flash plug-in would definately be a viable culprit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rednarb Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 (edited) I have flash installed and can view flash items without any difficulty. What I can't see with Firefox that I can with IE is the graphs. Which is truly odd since they appear to just be PNG images. Here is what I see when I view that URL. I used about a 2-week old installation of Firefox 1.0.6. But you folks can see them just fine? Eric Edit - Viewing the source I found the image at http://server81.totalchoicehosting.com/mrtg/index-day.png, I punch that in to firefox and see it just fine. But I can't tell why in the heck the images aren't showing up on the page. Edited September 9, 2005 by Rednarb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonize Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Can you see png's on other sites ok? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rednarb Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Can you see png's on other sites ok? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, no problem. (also edited the previous post) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rednarb Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 I found the problem. Sorry guys I had FireFox set to load images only from the originating site. I thought that would save me from getting ads and other crud on 'net... Since those PNGs are linked to a different web site URL, firefox didn't display them. I found this by installing the Beta 1.5 of firefox. Instead of just not showing the images, it actually puts a broken image placeholder there, giving me the hint in the right direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 I had FireFox set to load images only from the originating site. I thought that would save me from getting ads and other crud on 'net... Since those PNGs are linked to a different web site URL, firefox didn't display them. That would have been my second guess. Glad you got it sorted out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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