<OT> VBscript in html: Security threat?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:04:03 -0700
Ian Stephen <ianstepn at shaw.ca> wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 17:33, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > Who in his right mind would use vbscript over javascript in their html,
> > anyway? Why would you keep out anyone not using IE and a modern version
> > of windows?
> 
> Who indeed, yesterday I was looking for information on schools from a
> neighbouring district www.sd35.bc.ca and to my amazement found 
> 
> "This website will not work with Netscape.  Please use only Internet
> Explorer minimum Ver. 5.0. Thank You."
> 
> Disgraceful.

The Swedish government passed a law a while back that all internet access of
government resources must be OS/browser agnostic. Good call, there. I wish
other governments would get the same clue.

> A good chunk of the rest of my evening was taken up with writing what I
> hope was a compelling argument why a school district website should be
> accessible to all.

I would imagine that for these people you must argue that as a user of
Netscape/Opera/whatever, you are handicapped. What are the laws on handicap
access?


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