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The joys of insurance

August 17, 2006 by paul

I just sent this email to the webmaster of Australian Unity:

Hi,

Why does your website require Windows and Internet Explorer when getting a quote? I just tested with a Macintosh running Firefox (and spoofing its user-agent as IE on a Windows XP machine) and the site worked perfectly – as it should. If I was a regular non-technical user I would have given up and you would have had no chance of getting my money, which seems counter-productive.

Please open your site up to standards-compliant browsers such as Firefox, Safari and Opera. Microsoft has enough money without web designers forcing us to give them more.

Regards,
Paul

Who wants to bet I get a canned response?

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  1. on August 17, 2006 at 6:43 pm gizo

    However, if you were a regular non-technical user, you would have been using Windows and IE.
    I reckon they’ll send you candy, or some hoo-ha about solid releases and their own SOE.


  2. on August 17, 2006 at 6:48 pm Squozen

    Nah, the Windows/IE user can barely get their machine to boot with all the spyware it’s running…


  3. on August 18, 2006 at 10:27 am Justin

    Not sure why you even bothered sending it.

    Nubcakes.


  4. on August 18, 2006 at 2:59 pm k

    If I worked there I would totally reply with “Hippies don’t usually have insurance policies”.

    /ducks!
    :D


  5. on August 18, 2006 at 9:07 pm Vetti

    they’ll send you the standard “fuck em and feed em froot loops” reply statement. give em hell, tall paul!



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