[school] I thought this was pretty great (9)

1 Name: Anonymous : 2006-09-21 04:50 ID:PUeWInCs

So I check the online course info thing my school uses called Blackboard and notice this message

Mon, Sep 18, 2006 -- NOTICE: Must Use Firefox Browser
To all Blackboard users: since the recent upgrade to Blackboard 7.1, there have been many problems with HTML errors when viewing Blackboard content in Safari and/or Internet Explorer browsers. Please be sure to use the Firefox browser to view all content in Blackboard. Thank you.


Wow. That's all I can say. While on one hand I support firefox/mozilla, on the other, this just sounds like terribly lazy programming. "Oops. Our recent changes don't work in anything but Firefox, so rather than us being responsible and fixing the problems you instead have to use Firefox. Sorry"

2 Name: Anonymous : 2006-09-21 05:17 ID:Heaven

So did your school make this Blackboard problem, or are you expecting them to fix a program they didn't even make?

3 Name: Anonymous : 2006-09-21 05:51 ID:PUeWInCs

i never said it's the school's fault. i'm talking about the people who made it

4 Name: Anonymous : 2006-09-21 07:26 ID:Heaven

Who cares? I don't.

5 Name: Anonymous : 2006-09-21 08:01 ID:rjMJDoTb

Makes a change from "designed for Internet Explorer at 1024x768", at least.

Still, pretty sloppy. As I recall the version in use at my university only has problems with Opera. It seems like it's only the Department of Computing that thinks ill of Blackboard; I think the rest of the university loves it.

6 Name: Anonymous : 2006-09-21 16:31 ID:PUeWInCs

OP here, and I just remembered that the email system my school uses doesn't really work with firefox. Well, you can read email, but you can't compose email with it. Clicking on the compose link only works in IE. So.. the whole thing is pretty annoying.

7 Name: Anonymous : 2006-09-21 17:24 ID:Heaven

"Designed for Thisandthat browser vesion whatever and an resolution of 1213*233" is just stupid (What are you doing, trying to drive people away from your site?) and easily avoidable (It really isn't that hard anymore to get a page to work in at least khtml-based stuff, gecko-based stuff, opera, and IE, even if you may have to write multiple versions) and therefore the result of pure lazyness.

Even if you design for a certain browser... why put something like this up on your page? Why make people who use a different browser feel unwelcome?

The resolution thing is probably even dumber. PROTIP: NO ONE will EVER change the resolution to visit your site. And a lot of people don't have their browser window maximized all the time.

These messages are very 1998 and extremley unprofessional, and won't help anyone.

8 Name: Anonymous : 2006-09-22 03:29 ID:Heaven

The FAFSA Live Chat Assistance doesn't work on Firefox. I have to go ALL THE WAY to the Internet Explorer icon to use it. What an inconvenience.

9 Name: Anonymous : 2006-09-22 21:19 ID:Heaven

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