This is really stupid, especially in today’s world. I mean I understand that Windows is THE dominant operating system (unfortunately.) But this is just, errm whats the word, ahhh yes PATHETIC! What about the other 10% non-Windows users? Need I remind the Mission that at least 40% of users do not use IE?
Source: Wikipedia
What kind of long-term strategy does a government agency have when it launches a website that works exclusively with Internet Explorer, when its common knowledge that the browser’s numbers has been dwindling since 2005?
Source: Wikipedia
Its not like we have an option. Internet Explorer cannot be installed on Macs or Linux without some sort of hacking or virtualization.
In reality, when they first started building this “egov” system, they didn’t really develop it solely for Internet Explorer. When they first launch I was able to access it using Firefox. But apparently, it was too buggy for non-IE browsers, so they just locked everybody out. Now that I think of it, I will try changing the user-agent in Firefox to IE and see what happens. Will update.
Have you tried it to access sambaonline?
1. I don’t think you actually need a plugin to do that in FF. You can change the user-agent via the about:config page.2. Unfortunately, this is not an uncommon situation.
I think that the officials in Electronic government are a group pf ignorant people,we are in Egypt have the same problem, i have a hard time getting my sister grades from an Egov site.
Dear… I have one more obstacle to add about egov @ sacm.org -_-not only do they restrict you to using explorer .. egov crashes on Internet Explorer 8 … it only works with Internet Explorer 7… which you cannot install on any windows 7 or Vista -_-After waiting too long (#weeks) for a response from their helpdesk , I found out that all the PC’s at my university are still using XP , so I used them. =]cheers
@lwallan Thats good to know. I really don’ t know who they hired to build this mockery of a website. But all I know is that they should be fired.
I am a linux user and I ran into the same issue today so I tried to use IE8 under a virtual machine but it did not work because SACM are using a home made certificate!!!!, and it seems that the extra security in IE8 will not even tell you about it. I think SACM don’t want to spend extra dollars to get a signed certificate from Verisign or such…
@Fahad I am on Ubuntu too. I could log on using FF + A switcher agent add-on. You could see your messages and navigate the site. However, iirc, you can’t attach a file. Not sure how many requests without an attachments one can raise.
BTW, this system cost them 12 million dollars. tsk tsk
Even though I have IE8, I cannot open it. What is wrong?
they are fucked up I tried to requist a tecket I could not even open the page and if I open it ,, it gave me a blank page . what a crazy system and people ????if u guys know how to requist a ticket please tell me ???