Fema Site Only Works With Msie 6

[Madmanmcp]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9231271/

[TCH-Bruce]

That's just plain stupid!

[TCH-Rob]

No Bruce, that's the government.

[stevevan]

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!

[TCH-Bruce]

No Bruce, that's the government.

True, what was I thinking!

[Deverill]

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.

[carbonize]

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.

[cajunman4life]

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

[Rednarb]

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...

[cajunman4life]

Have you tried THIS link? It doesn't seem to support Firefox either...

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I just checked it in Firefox, works fine here.

[marie b.]

Works fine here, too.

[TCH-Don]

Works fine in Firefox for me.

You may have a corrupted install.

[TCH-Bruce]

Or you don't have the flash plugin installed.

[cajunman4life]

Ahh ha, I'll bet what Bruce mentioned is the case. The missing flash plug-in would definately be a viable culprit.

[Rednarb]

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

[carbonize]

Can you see png's on other sites ok?

[Rednarb]

Can you see png's on other sites ok?

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Yes, no problem. (also edited the previous post)

[Rednarb]

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.

 

[TCH-Bruce]

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.