Bob Melson wrote: > On Wednesday 18 May 2011 11:25, singhals ([email protected]) opined: > >> Wes Groleau wrote: >>> On 05-18-2011 09:52, singhals wrote: >>>> Ian Goddard wrote: >>>>> [email protected] wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> It's so common here I forgot about it. Many places have french names, >>>>>> and >>>>>> major places have german, english, spanish names. >>>>> >>>>> That's a common source of problems. People take requirements for >>>>> granted& fail to mention them and then complain that they weren't >>>>> provided. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Variation #2 of the above: people fail to mention requirements, >>>> misunderstand the question when asked about them, and so respond >>>> incorrectly, and THEN complain ... >>>> (viz: the suit who was asked "will the salary ever change?" and said >>>> NO, forgetting the company gives an annual raise ...) >>> >>> Or the requirement is "It has to provide everything the old one did, >>> including all the stuff we've never used but won't admit we don't need." >>> >>> "And by the way, it has to look and feel like the old one, too" >>> >> >> Oh, yeah, /that/ one. (g) >> >> Cheryl > <rant> > It has nothing to do with the original topic, but reading the above brought > to mind some of _my_ pet peeves, large among 'em those sites which will > recognize every browser known to man, but only if they're on a windows > and/or mac/os box. Or those who don't understand that Firefox and > Seamonkey are different branches of the same (mozilla) development tree > and piss and moan about an "unrecognized" browser (seamonkey) while > merrily serving pages to that very same browser. > > Yeah, yeah, I _know_, 'tis a windows/mac world out there and those of us > who've chosen to eschew either/both have only ourselves to blame - but, > dammit, a browser is still a browser, notwithstanding the o/s it's running > on. If the page being served will display correctly in, e.g, firefox over > there, it likely will display equally correctly in firefox over here. > > Sheesh! > > </rant> (G) Now, Bob, chill /out/. Somebody told me, once upon a time, how to make my computer lie about its browser and OS. Can't say I remember the details now, but someone must. Won't make a lot of difference, because the other side will then grouse and complain because your OS is unsupported, but ...? Cheryl