On 7/28/2017 5:48 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
Lately I've been experiencing a gradual slowdown in the use of my
EarthLink webmail. Two hours ago it became fully inaccessible, yet there was
no notice of outage on their home page. So, I gave it a try using IE11, and
everything appears to be working fine.
This is ridiculous. Years ago I switched over to using Firefox as it was
more stable than IE, but now it appears that a number of websites are actively
screening out one browser or another. It was already difficult to make full
use of evilBay as certain functions, such as the messaging and feedback
systems, would not work at all with Firefox but worked fine with IE if I was on
a wifi connection.
So who is it that's making us victims in a high stakes browser war?
Microsoft? Google? Mozilla?
No need for paranoia. The truth is that there are gazillions of developers out there, half, by definition, average or
below. They are all under pressure to deliver stuff that works, is secure - to a deadline.
With several browsers and multiple mobile OSs, it's an essentially impossible task. I'm actually rather amazed that as
many sites work as well as they do.
I've been rather impressed with the steady progress in usability and user friendliness on several sites of big time
folks, financial institutions, some major retailers, etc. I suppose they have the money to get the better developers.
Things I wished were there turn up and annoyances go away.
Your problems with eBay are a mystery. As with others here, I've used it forever, still use it fairly regularly, and
have not had any problem for many years. It just works.
No Conspirator Moose
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