Online Banking And Browser Support

robbo writes "Earlier this week, The Register ran a piece on major UK banks and E-commerce sites' refusal to support alternative browsers for online banking, and they followed up with a list of saints and sinners. The reasons vary from requiring support for proprietary technology to security. My own bank only recently started supporting Netscape 6 (but they still don't support Mozilla). Clearly, support for Mozilla, Konqueror, or Galeon are absolutely necessary if projects like GNUCash can successfully integrate online banking. How does the Slashdot crowd find their banking support? Is your bank a sinner or a saint?"

Comments

Why the heck /should/ banks support "alt" browsers

[Istealmymusic]

I don't run a bank, or work at a bank, or illictly access a bank, but I find it very repressive to have a hoard (whored) of Slashdotters complaining about how their special browser doesn't work with other people's sites. Since when does the minority dictate how those who must target the majority do business? They have to aim somewhere; NS and IE are nowhere near close to the Internet standards; each have their differing ECMA/Javascript properties, documents, and accessors--you can't "code for the" standards without losing ridiclous amounts of functionality our customers demand .

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ScotiaBank here in Canada is a saint

[perp]

Not only do they support Mozilla, they even support Konqueror.

Of course it's possible to support different browsers; the ScotiaBank page is a very functional, customizable bunch of jsps, not some Flash-infested monstrosity written by someone who only knows how to run FrontPage. God, I hate FrontPage ... anyone who can press ^C and ^V thinks they're a web designer.