Monday, May 29, 2006

Stupidity> O2 website

On the O2 website I'm constantly greeted with a javascript window telling me: "Your browser version is out of date. Would you like to upgrade it now for a better user experience? (Highly Recommended)". Clicking on "OK" takes you to a page pointing to a Netscape upgrade page, or to various 404s. They don't bother to do an OS check, which would tell them that I'm on a Mac, and there is no NS8 for the Mac. And this window just keeps popping up on numerous different pages despite hitting cancel earlier.

This is idiocy in action. I'm happily using the latest version of Camino which renders the vast majority of the web perfectly. A crummy mobile operator shouldn't have anything to say about my browser choice. And you should really try and mistake Camino for FF instead of NS, that would offend me a bit less.

Besides, if you can't force your site to remember the value I gave earlier but keep shoving that upgrade-window down my throat, what should we expect you to know about user experience in the first place? And you dare "highly recommend" it? The script is mostly concerned about Opera, but doesn't offer an upgrade when I checked the page with an old versionof the browser - although it renders like shit, with menus behind O2's clever flash-splash-banners and everything.

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