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

[Ski Kacoroski]

Actually, I need to make one correction.  The website states it can be
run via firefox, but the access the website is IE only.  On the main
site, you log in with a name and password.  The attendance info is in a
different application so, being helpful, they tried to do some magic
behind the scenes so you will not need to know a second account id and
password.  That magic requires IE.  I tried Safari and Firefox with no
luck.  What I cannot understand is why they could not sync the account
databases behind the scenes as that is what we do where I work.

In any case, I look forward to their solution (probably giving me the
second accountid and password I need).

cheers,

ski

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:19:08 -0700 Glenn Stone
<technoshaman at liawol.org> wrote:
> 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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