As many of you know, I begrudgingly use Windows:
That doesn’t mean that I love it, and I certainly hate Microsoft Internet Explorer. Seems that some sites still don’t get that IE is a turd and that it’s not what their visitors wish to use.
Well, I had to print out a license I hold from the Indiana State Department of Health yesterday and guess what came up?
Notice the “.aspx” extension? Means they’re using Microsoft ASS.NET, errrr….. ASP.NET. No wonder it breaks when you’re using Opera.
Not every ASS.NET page breaks in Opera, but nearly every page that does break in Opera is built with ASS.NET. (On a side note, Silverblight won’t work at all, but who cares?)
Maybe now that the FCC is making a landgrab for the internet under the veil of “network neutrality”, they can enforce real W3C standards on the assclowns that handle Indiana state websites.
I do agree ASP.net is a turd, but it can usually design standards compliant websites that work in Opera as long as cavemen aren’t using it, which Indiana inconveniently is. PHP is a god-awful language neverless and ASP.net is more usable than that pile of feces.
Comment by Calvin — October 23, 2009 @ 6:26 pm
[...] a Boycott Novell regular, complains that Microsoft’s software technology continues to exclude and to punish Opera users (even on Windows). Not every ASS.NET page breaks in Opera, but nearly every page that does break in Opera is built [...]
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