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Chase Bank May Drop Support of Chrome, Opera
mwandaw writes "Banking giant JPMorgan Chase may drop support of some popular browsers because they do not 'all offer the minimum levels of security that we require while others may not perform well with our site.' After July 18 you may not be able to access the website with a browser that they do not support. The list of browsers they currently support seems outdated: Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher, Firefox 2.0 and higher, and Safari 3.0 and higher (for Macs only). With usage of IE6 plummeting and concerns about its security well known, the inclusion of that browser seems suspect. On the other extreme, rising star Chrome appears to be left out, too. What does Google think of that?"
Considering the Windows malware that is emptying bank accounts, you have to ban Windows if serious about security. If not banning Windows, they should create a Chase-branded native Windows software client for their customers to use so they don't use a browser at all.
Safari support is important because many Windows users do their online banking with their iPod or iPhone because it's exponentially safer than Windows, and because Mac users are extremely trouble-free clients. But they should simply support WebKit to also get Chrome and the other smartphones.
The key takeaway from the IE9 preview is that the Internet Explorer platform is dead. If you support WebKit plus IE6-IE8 then you'll very likely be including IE9 as if it is a WebKit browser since they are making a WebKit-alike so they can reboot their mobile platform.
Overall I think the best strategy is to be aggressive with HTML5, including fallbacks so that you have one site you're focusing on, that can run in any HTML5 browser and fallback gracefully to the old browsers, then be aggressive about getting your clients to upgrade and about communicating whatever problems you have to W3C and the browser vendors. The way out is through.
Oh, new one. Not understanding something, and/or saying you don't, proves you're an idiot now ? Does anyone else not understand, and/or say so ? Would using the phrase "irrational exuberance" have made a difference, beyond semantics ?
Do you, sir, belong to the other category, the ones who know about everything, and say so ? Those are, indeed, so much more intelligent than those who "don't know"...
Let's not forget using the first name of people you don't know. Good old Ben, nice but a bit dumb, I was telling him how he could solve the world crisis last evening, and he didn't listen... Next, I'll solve the middle east crisis, and move on to the war in afghanistan...
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You deposit money at ATMs? You realize that there is no guarantee that you will ever have that money deposited, and that you dont even have a receipt that you can use in small claims court?
Another reason not to use ATM's is because these days every ATM card is also a debit card, and debit cards are bad news. There is no place that a debit card works that a credit card doesnt, but a credit card has protections and guarantees. You cant do a charge back on your debit card, and there is no fancy gimmicks a credit card company can use to force you into an overdraw penalty...
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