[G4] Apple OS Not Compatible with FCC Web

Winsor Crosby wincros at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 29 09:07:49 PST 2003


>But did you see on their site where they got an award for best 
>government web site?
>
>What's the offending URL?  I have Netscape 7 which claims to have 
>Sun-compliant Java (unlike IE).  IME sites that only work with IE 
>are written using Moft's brand of  HTML or java (which they were 
>court-ordered to make compliant).
>
>Richard Kriss wrote:
>>Since several readers misread my reason for posting to the G4 list.  I was
>>not slamming Safari as Explorer 5.2.2 has the same problem. Per the FCC the
>>page will not work with a Mac OS due a Java script issue. They are not
>>picking on Macs becasue PC behind firewalls and all AOL users have the same
>>issue.  My personal opinion is the FCC needs to clean up their act but
>>that's not going to happen in the near term..  If you are a Mac user and
>>NEED to use the FCC's ONLINE application, just use a co-worker's PC.  If you
>>try to use a Mac OS it will not work and the lame FCC error message is
>>useless. Safari works great on all other FCC web pages.  I had to use a PC
>>to do my online business with the FCC and it made me appreciate my G4.

It seems to work just fine with OS9.1 and iCab.
-- 
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California



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