FEMA Offer Disaster Aid to IE Users ONLY!
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Hurricane website is IE only
Hurricane website is IE only
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I found this story in The Register that scarcely credited belief, but I followed to trail though the FEMA site and it is correct. You can read most of their site with Firefox, but when it comes to actually registering for aid only IE will do - friends of Bill's in high places maybe? Try to register for aid with FF and you get this page
I found this story in The Register that scarcely credited belief, but I followed to trail though the FEMA site and it is correct. You can read most of their site with Firefox, but when it comes to actually registering for aid only IE will do - friends of Bill's in high places maybe? Try to register for aid with FF and you get this page
In order to use this site, you must have JavaScript Enabled and Internet Explorer version 6.
Download it from Microsoft or call 1-800-621-FEMA (3362) to register.
Beggers belief in how stupid FEMA are
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yeah
I saw a Federal Register notice several weeks ago about government agencies wanting to require IE for forms. It was notification of a comment period. Sad.
I work for the Coast Guard
... and I can say for a fact the web designers / programmers that work for the goverment on the whole suck balls. I mean I work with people who have been in development for 8 years and still don't know how to even use rudimentary stylesheets.
Don't even get me started on the programming practices ( or rather lack there of )
from the gov't that sued MS
from the gov't that sued MS, we now have lazy endorsement: