[ale] OT: top-posting - Further OT - Banks and Firefox

Jim Popovitch yahoo at jimpop.com
Wed Jan 7 15:57:55 EST 2009


(Top posted 'cause there is no other way on a blackberry)

I've been using BoA with FF for years now, their support of all
browsers has been quite excellent.  Addl props go to Delta
(www.delta.com) for their extra effort to ensure that their site works
well for all browsers.

-Jim P.

On 2009-01-07, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> I was pleasantly surprised a few months back to find Bank of America
> made a point of making their site work with Firefox and announced same
> on their site once they had done so.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> Lynch
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:49 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: top-posting
>
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
>> Okay,
>>
>> I want to open a can of worms :)
>>
>> We have a sales-rep that sent me this response today in regards to a
>> link I sent him that
>> top-posting is "bad".
>>
>> /*The link you sent me is one opinion but I think top posting is the
> only way to go since the rest of the Microsoft world does it that way.
> And, if we like it or not, they are the top dog in the business world.
> Sounds like The Butter Battle Book written by Dr. Seuss to me.*/
>>
>> The link I sent:
>>
>> http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
>>
>> Comments? Flames?
>>
>>
> Reminds me of my bank when I told them their web page didn't work with
> Firefox.  They were very indignant and suggested that from their logs
> 99% of the people accessing their site were using IE.  Well DUH!
>
> Jim.
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