Backside of ProvidentLiving.org

Why is it that the website backside is "MS Internet Explorer only"? I'm specifically pointing to the Ward Employment Specialist section for downloading reports. As far as I'm concerned, we should be using W3C standards and not be tied to proprietary web browsers. I understand that most if not all the other church websites have been "playing nice". This one has not.

Even though the copyright date on the bottom of the page is 2008, this is actually a much older section of the lds.org site (the footer is included across all the pages in this section).

All of the pages on Church sites that have been created in the past few years are compatible with a much wider standard of browsers. Unfortunately, the JavaScript validation on these pages are preventing users from even attempting to use the site with other browsers (that is so 90's!) . But since the task to modify or rewrite this section of the site to allow compatibility across browsers is probably some time off, it is easiest (quickest) to just use IE. (Personally, I use FireFox as my main browser, but I still keep IE around for issues like this)

The "Employment Resource Services Database" was written quite a few years ago. Internet Explorer 7 works well with it too. It would simply take more time and resources to get this application to be fully cross-browser compliant before it's redesign project is completed, so it is merely being maintained until then.

pritchet1 wrote:Why is it that the website backside is "MS Internet Explorer only"? I'm specifically pointing to the Ward Employment Specialist section for downloading reports. As far as I'm concerned, we should be using W3C standards and not be tied to proprietary web browsers. I understand that most if not all the other church websites have been "playing nice". This one has not.

The current version of FireFox doesn't seem to have any issues with the Providentliving.org web site. However, keeping IE around for those situations in which FF isn't friendly is good advice.

Techgy wrote:The current version of FireFox doesn't seem to have any issues with the Providentliving.org web site. However, keeping IE around for those situations in which FF isn't friendly is good advice.

I use Firefox 3 and one of the add-on's I cannot do without is "IE Tab" which allows me to use IE for those situations. If a page doesnt load up correctly you simply click on one icon at the buttom and it switches to the IE engine. You can also add webpage to always load like that.

I know it can seem like defeating the object but its a solution to a real problem.

So I use Firefox with the IE Tab for some sites and my theme is "Cromifox". Best of all 3

haledn wrote:But since the task to modify or rewrite this section of the site to allow compatibility across browsers is probably some time off, it is easiest (quickest) to just use IE. (Personally, I use FireFox as my main browser, but I still keep IE around for issues like this)

dkjorgi wrote:I use Firefox 3 and one of the add-on's I cannot do without is "IE Tab" which allows me to use IE for those situations. If a page doesnt load up correctly you simply click on one icon at the buttom and it switches to the IE engine. You can also add webpage to always load like that.

Unless, of course, you are using a Mac, in which case, IE is not available or supported any more by Microsoft, which also means that the "IE Tab" add-on doesn't work on the Mac OS X version of FireFox.

But then again, I also navigated to the Ward Employment Specialist page on www.providentliving.org with the current version of Firefox (3.0.6) without any apparent problem.