[SLL] Arrgh, Lake Washington School District requires IE to access web site...

Glenn Stone technoshaman at liawol.org
Tue Sep 18 10:19:08 PDT 2007


On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 08:35:17AM -0700, Ski Kacoroski wrote:
><soapbox on>
>My kids attend LWSD and they have this neat new website so I
>can see the attendance information online -- NOT!  According to them you
>have to run IE.  I have asked them politely for a workaround, but it
>really burns me that in this day and age, people still create IE only
>web sites.
></soapbox off>

If you were a state and LWSD were FedGov, that would be unconstitutional.
It's called an "unfunded mandate."  

What I translate their lame excuse as is "So the parents could be stupid."

I wonder what the lawyer who spoke to us at GSLUG about SCO the other
Saturday would have to say about this.  

-- Glenn


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