Browsers need to be "upgraded"

As some have experienced using Opera or Netscape Navigator for certain on-line banking functions...only Internet Explorer seems to be the "upgraded browser" that will work. Does anyone in our community use another so called "upgraded browser" to accomplish personal banking functions?

 

Mozilla has never given me a problem with banking transactions, credit card payments, etc.

 

I use Opera for my banks just fine.

I think you will find that some banks dont want the hassle of supporting anything other than IE, so they put specific code onto their site to block Opera and firefox.

IE is in no way better than Opera or Firefox. It has more security holes than a Swiss cheese, it cant match Opera of firefox's Speed or rendering.

Basically it boils downs to banks not using Standrad HTML and not wanting to bother supporting anything but IE. In opera you can choose "Identify as Internet Explorer" which fixes 90% of these annoying sites, im sure i remember Firefox having the same.

All you can do it mail them asking why they dont support to international Web standards for HTML or whatever they made it in. Their answer may contain some spurious rubbish such as FF or Opera not supporting their site, but in reality they are lazy, and probably dont have the staff to code a properly compliant web site.

 

This is why I hate IE, and lazy web designers.

Make crap w3c compliant and the issues go away.

Lazy bums!

I may be an amateur web designer, but my pages are ALWAYS compliant with at least HTML 4.01.

 

The problem with big web apps like Banking apps is they are very complex things, and its really a lot easier to force your users to use a specific browser than to write a different version of the code for each possible browser version. It costs a lot less both money AND performance (more code on their servers, more data to wade through, caching is less effective....)

 

I work for a bank

You dont need to write code for each browser. If you write in compliant HMTL it will work on all browsers. Only when people take sloppy short cuts does it break on some browsers.

This is why its baffling, you write in w3c compliant HTML you get no problems with any brower, on any OS in existance.

There is no "opera html" or "Firefox html" There is just w3c comliant HMTL, which if web designers meet, it works flawlessly on any browser.

There is no excuse, it's just plain lack of html coding skill or lazyness. Especially with the amount of clout the average bank can have

 

Except, IE doesn't display w3c compliant code right, all the time

 

Much thanks to your comments and insight. Just as I suspected...pure laziness & unwilling to get compliant as consumers using their on-line banking and forcing us to accept their programming efforts. I'll give firefox a try. Opera supports some banking but not all of them.

 

I've yet to find a browser that supports my wife's multiple listing service website, besides IE.

You would think such a major service would do well to be a bit more compliant.

But then, if banks don't....

 

Yes...you would think a MLS would use other browsers than IE since they would be more secure. I can use on-line banking with Windows Xp but not with Windows 98 2nd edition. I did notice that Opera's preferences default to "Identify as IE 6".

 

Thanks NIRVANA...where you said, " "Identify as Internet Explorer" which fixes 90% of these annoying sites" is right on the money! It did fix the big problem with windows 98 2nd edition Thankyou for your tip.

 

Cool glad it worked Lucky that most people whoa re too innept to code a good compliant website are also too inept to figure out how to properly block a browser huh

 

Nirvana...just noticed that you use 7.54 Opera. I'm still on 7.2...are you using the free one or have you purchased?

 

When converted to ££ it only worked out at about an hours pay, so i bought it

You can get 7.54 here :- http://www.opera.com/download/
You can try the 7.60 BETA here:- http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/o760tp1v_7141.exe

Just beware that 7.60 is beta, and may have bugs, check the opera forums here :- http://my.opera.com/forums/