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Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:22:44PM +0100, Simon Robert wrote:
>
>> The DoW&P site says that even though you will be able to enter info, but
>> that the system won't work anyhow. It certainly seemed to work, but I
>> didn't actually register, so I would guess that there is some backend
>> process that can't handles unices rather than the browser type being the
>> problem.
>>
>
> How would it know? The only thing relevant to a web form is the browser
> being used. The particular browser generally depends on the OS, but
> that’s all. What they almost certainly mean when they say “we don’t
> support Mac or Unix” is “we don’t support any browser than internet
> explorer, but aren’t actually bright enough to say so”.
>
> If there’s a Java applet involved, then it might be OS-dependant. If
> it’s just a simple form, with or without javascript, then they’re
> talking out of their arses.
>
You'd have to make a real effort to make an OS independent platform like
Java OS dependent - unless you just go :
** **
***String os_name = System.getProperty("os.name", "");***
*** if (!os_name.startsWith("Window")) {***
***Exit for no reason at all !***
***}***
****
***Who ever wrote the back end app should NOT be paid for it.
Tom te tom te tom
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