It’s stupid when web developers design by explicit inclusion rather than exclusion. We’ve covered this.
I was invited to a “webex” presentation that I couldn’t watch, for love or money, from my Apple.
The truly infuriating bit was that the error message came from the Java client that the page wanted my browser to run. All four browsers I tried (IE, Netscape, Safari, and FireFox) loaded the java just fine. All four of them started up the JVM just fine. (For the non-technical folks, the JVM is (or ought to be) totally independent of the web browser) And on every single one of these browsers, their code happily displayed “Netscape on OS X is not supported by WebEx.”
Okay, morons. If you’re going to buy into the hype and use Java, at least have some goddamn faith that it’s going to work on some arbitrary platform. And at very least, say “your JVM isn’t updated,” not this bull-crap thing about “I don’t know what this browser is so it must be Netscape.”
Valhalla! I am coming! AAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
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