[Discuss] UVic's new portal now available to students, unless they use Firefox

[Paul Nienaber]

Clarke Brunsdon wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:49 -0700, Adam Parkin wrote:
>   
>> So UVic has launched a new online portal service for students, the 
>> e-mail I received outlining the servies is given below.  BUT, Firefox is 
>> not one of the supported browsers, and upon going to the main USource 
>> page (https://usource.uvic.ca)  you are greeted with a nice "Unsupported 
>> browser" blurb.  So far as I can tell you can browse the site fine with 
>> FF, but it does seem odd to me that the fastest growing, arguably most 
>> secure, and most popular browser amongst the students I know is unsupported.
>>
>> Why is the University so anti-OSS?  OpenOffice isn't installed in any of 
>> the Windows labs on campus (the only lab I know of with OO is the Linux 
>> lab in ELWB215, and even then it's a very old version of OO), Firefox is 
>> installed in the Windows labs, but it's an older version (pre 1.5) and 
>> even then students in early CSC courses (100 et al) are strongly 
>> encouraged to use IE over FF.  And that lone Linux lab runs a bizarre 
>> Linux distro that seems very quirky and unreliable (I've had those 
>> machines lock up on me much more often than the Windows 2000 machines 
>> across the hall).
>>
>> Sorry for the mini-rant, just in a complaining kinda mood today I 
>> suppose.... =8-p
>>     
>
>
>
> Ha, I was composing practically the exact same email as I got this.
>
> Buy yea, I can't decide whether to bitch or not. (about the FF thing)
>
> I can't imagine 
> A: getting anywhere
> B: not sounding like a giant prick doing it
>
> But I also have a tough time letting people get away with shit like
> this.
>
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So they support Netscape and not Firefox?  This isn't 1995, people!  And 
who *actually* uses regular Mozilla on Windows?

~p