[G4] Apple OS Not Compatible with FCC Web Pages

[David M. Ensteness]

Uhm, I am not faulting you, rather faulting them.

Tech support people will often tell you "no it doesn't work from a Mac" 
that generally means they have no clue and are assuming it doesn't work 
because they are only trained to support Windows.

Apple supports JAVA 2.0 in Mac OS X v.10.2, MS does not ship JAVA with 
any currently available version of Windows and has not for well over a 
year. In fact the judge in the private Sun vs MS case just ordered MS 
to begin including JAVA with Windows within 120 days [stayed until 
after the appeal].

So, most likely your FCC application will work, the question is simply 
who can tell you how. Try a couple browsers, some people have noted 
JAVA issues in Safari and it is one of the top things reported to Apple 
to fix before 1.0 final is released. Try it in OmniWeb 4.1.1, Netscape 
7.0.1, IE 5.2.x, Opera 6.0, or iCab whatever, Chimera 0.6 might do it 
too.

Fact is that if its a JAVA thing it could very well be the browser but 
I seriously doubt its Mac OS.

David

On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 10:30  AM, Richard Kriss wrote:

> Don't waste your time messing with the FCC if you have a Macintosh 
> computer.
>
> I just got off the telephone with the FCC and they will not accept
> applications via Safari or any Apple OS due to lack of Java support.
>
> I wasted several hours over Sat/Sun trying to file an online FCC 
> application
> and the Tech Support at the FCC said I needed to file using a PC as the
> Apple Macintosh is not supported. She went on to tell me it was a Java
> script issue.