[plug] webmaster tyranny

[Bret Busby]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Gavin Chester wrote:

> 
> You'd have thought webmasters wouldn't be such tyrannical prats and microsoft minions these days, but then again ...
>
> Try getting an online insurance quote at qbe.com.au and you are told to knick off and get internet explorer and nothing else will do for them to service your needs :-(
>
> Web standards, page rendering, compatibility and all else aside, this is plain tyranny because if you tell konqueror to masqerade as IE on WinXP the quote system works just fine. Bah!
>
> Gavin
>
>

Well, QBE is connected with what used to be Western Underwriters, one 
of the most shady insurance copmpanies in the business. WU showed me 
that insurance fraud was "SOP". "So what if that what we insured you 
against. That does not mean that we will honour any claims."

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992

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