OT: Canadian Census 2006

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 14:00:58 -0700,
  Stephen Mirowski <spmirowski at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> What could have saved me a heap of time?  Well, the browser detection 
> could have used
> some novice JavaScript to detect my OS version and say NAE, you aren't 
> supported.
> Instead there's code to say your browser isn't supported so go download 
> a supported browser
> which is the very one you are using right now.

What would have saved even more time is using a standard html 4.01 compliant
form and not used any java or javascript so that the page would just work.
What the heck are they using java for anyway?