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Re: [LUG] browser wars

 

I use Cahoot (Abbey National) and their web site works fine in FF.  When I 
first used them 7 or 8 years ago there was a problem displaying some pages 
but that was very quickly fixed.  Maybe a bank which is specifically web 
based pays more attention to standards?

George

On Saturday 02 August 2008, Anton Channing wrote:
> Tom Potts wrote:
> > http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38653/113/
> >
> > So whats your banks excuse?
>
> My bank's website works fine in Firefox, I use it
> all the time for all kinds of transactions and moving
> funds from one account to another.
>
> That would be the Cooperative Bank.  A number of years
> ago I complained to them saying that a bank which
> persues an 'ethical' policy like they claim to do, should
> not be supporting an unethical monopoly like microsoft
> by having a non-standards compliant website that only
> works on IE.
>
> Within a couple of months of my complaint, their site
> suddenly worked on FF and I haven't looked back... :)
>
> Anton



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