On Wed, 3 May 2006, Robin Laing wrote:
briert(a)cepu.ca wrote:
> > Guy Fraser wrote:
> >
>
> The site is running on a Windows server. This was apparent from a number
> of timeouts that put up IIS's default message of contact microsoft. The
> system is also very slow.
>
> There is no excuse for developing such a poor site. Not just the
> restrictions, but also the poor performance.
>
> I'm going to send them an e-mail.
>
> Tim Brier.
>
Hey, it is the government. They have fallen into the MS is the best
trap. :)
BTW, thanks for the tip.
I would rather send in the snail mail version with a nice comment
page attached. This will have a double impact as they now have to
pay someone to enter the data that they wanted me to enter.
it's not like i want to drag this thread out any longer, but i'm
pretty sure you can see the problem here:
http://www50.statcan.ca/census2006/js/browserCheck.js
particularly the last few lines of the function
"checkForSupportedBrowserVersion", which reads as follows:
}
// The OS is not MacOS (and not Microsoft Windows)
else {
// The OS is not supported
return false;
}
}
rday