grue"~~Don't~~ be evil"
I suspect the websites that use this system won’t be worth visiting anyway.
MountaineerSo you won’t use your banks website?
Or your utilities (gas/water/electricity/internet)?
You won’t let your kids use the portal at their school for submitting assignments?
Your government sites for renewing your drivers license or scheduling hard refuse pickup?
I can think of **lots ** of reasons that will force me to have chrome installed if this goes ahead.
yukichigaiYour government sites for renewing your drivers license or scheduling hard refuse pickup?
As a government programmer, let me assure you that we're so goddamn far behind modern tech we've only just stopped supporting IE6.
Comforting and Terrifying.
Comferrifying?
Terriforting?
Comferrifying?
Terriforting?
pelotronTerriforting in this case
serfraserComfifying
In all seriousness we make sure things work with modern browsers, but you're never going to find a government agency requiring the latest and most advanced tech. For one thing, nothing in government moves fast enough to make that even remotely possible.
Also there's no way I'm gonna learn how to use some new piece of tech every few months. They don't pay us nearly enough for that kind of effort.
Which government?
All of them
State of Nevada in my case, but I've worked with a lot of other state and federal agencies. Pretty much all of them are like that. At best their legislatures will get a wild hair and spend a bunch of money on some off-the-shelf "latest and greatest" product (not really, it's usually something like Salesforce) and they'll be top of the line for a few years, but when it comes to actually keeping it upgraded and cutting edge that never happens.