On Wed, 3 May 2006, Robin Laing wrote: > briert@xxxxxxx 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
